[OpenWrt-Devel] Anyone familiar with RouterBoot? Trying to port board.

David Hutchison dhutchison at bluemesh.net
Tue Jan 27 20:35:49 EST 2015


The problem is there is no yaffs2 filesystem like typical
RouterBOARD's, it's all one 16mb SPI flash chip.

If it expects kernel, would renaming the .elf file to just "kernel" be
sufficient? I suppose I could give that a try.

-- Davey

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 5:38 PM, Soren Harward <stharward at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 12:56 PM, David Hutchison
> <dhutchison at bluemesh.net> wrote:
>> The problem is when I write the kernel to flash I cannot for the life
>> of me get RouterBOOT to recognize the kernel.
>
> What is the filename of the kernel on the yaffs2 filesystem on the
> kernel MTD partition?  AFAIK, RouterBoot expects it to be called
> "kernel".  Not "vmlinux" or "vmlinuz" or
> "openwrt-ar71xx-generic-vmlinux.elf" or anything else.
>
> --
> Soren Harward
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