[OpenWrt-Devel] [BUG] NAND sysupgrade broke ubifs on Netgear WNDR3700v4/4300.

[Adam Kuklycz]

Geez, it must be true that you should only sleep when you're dead...damn Aussie time zones...

I'll test with latest trunk as well & will confirm.  But looks promising!



-----Original Message-----
From: openwrt-devel [mailto:openwrt-devel-bounces at lists.openwrt.org] On Behalf Of Paul Blazejowski
Sent: Wednesday, 25 June 2014 6:27 AM
To: John Crispin
Cc: openwrt-devel at lists.openwrt.org
Subject: Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] [BUG] NAND sysupgrade broke ubifs on Netgear WNDR3700v4/4300.

sorry i meant https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/16803 the previous one is closed for good ;-)


On Tue, 2014-06-24 at 16:25 -0400, Paul Blazejowski wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> thanks for the tftp fix, flushing just became so much faster and easier.
> 
> Tested trunk r41336 after your jffs2 fix and the image boots fine, 
> restored my configuration changes, rebooted the router and all changes 
> are saved now. I will post the working dmesg to the ticket at
> https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/16840 but it is safe to say that you 
> can close it ;-) now.
> 
> Sysupgrade image(s) for 3700v4 and 4300 do not work now, guess this is 
> next on the list...
> 
> Thank you,
> -paul
> 
> On Tue, 2014-06-24 at 20:18 +0200, John Crispin wrote:
> > 
> > On 24/06/2014 19:05, Paul Blazejowski wrote:
> > > John,
> > > 
> > > Yes i use the reset with pin and from there i tftp the original 
> > > firmware from netgear after that i go to the gui and upload the 
> > > open-wrt image because the router will not accept the wndr3700v4 
> > > image (there's a cosmetic fix for that, i created a patch that 
> > > someone from the forums has sent months ago to this list but it 
> > > was never accepted...) https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/16840
> > > 
> > > With that patch tftp'ing the
> > > openwrt-ar71xx-nand-wndr3700v4-ubi-factory.img works without need 
> > > to flash the original firmware.
> > > 
> > > If there's another method that can be used to flash the image(s) 
> > > please let me know i would want to try any alternative ways of 
> > > flashing and could learn a thing or two in the process as well ;-)
> > > 
> > > Thank you, -paul
> > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > i just pushed the V vs v fix and another fix that removes the jffs2 
> > magic. i think this might have been the cause of the problems. 
> > please retry with current trunk and let me know if the problem is 
> > gone or still there
> > 
> > 	John
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