Getting 25.12 onto Mikrotik RB411UAHR
Mark Ter Morshuizen
mark at honingklip.co.za
Sat Jul 18 03:08:16 PDT 2026
Hi,
I'm trying to get 25.12 to work on a Mikrotik Routerboard 411UAHR.
I end up with no kernel messages whatsoever.
8<------------------------------------------------------------------------------
RouterBOOT booter 6.49.18
RouterBoard 411UAHR
CPU frequency: 680 MHz
Memory size: 64 MiB
NAND size: 128 MiB
Press any key within 2 seconds to enter setup..
trying bootp protocol.... OK
Got IP address: 192.168.0.45
resolved mac address 00:15:C5:F6:B3:60
Gateway: 192.168.0.1
transfer started ....................................................
transfer ok, time=2.67s
setting up elf image... OK
jumping to kernel code
OpenWrt kernel loader for AR7XXX/AR9XXX
Copyright (C) 2011 Gabor Juhos <juhosg at openwrt.org>
Decompressing kernel... done!
Starting kernel at 80060000...
<blinking cursor here>
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I've reset the whole build environment to defaults after trying all
sorts of changes to get this to work.
I have a very simple .dts to try to just get serial output:
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// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later OR MIT
#include "ar7100_mikrotik_routerboard-4xx.dtsi"
/ {
compatible = "mikrotik,rb411, qca,ar7161";
model = "Mikrotik RouterBOARD 411/A/AH/U";
memory at 0 {
device_type = "memory";
reg = <0x0 0x04000000>; /* 64MB RAM */
};
chosen {
bootargs = "console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/mtdblock3
rootfstype=squashfs";
stdout-path = "serial0:115200n8";
};
aliases {
serial0 = &uart;
};
};
&uart {
status = "okay";
};
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What am I missing here?
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Mark Ter Morshuizen
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