I still have the original trx (I think) and the source plus the notes of how I built the trx. However, there are a lot of differences between the two builds: - The openwrt startup has changed dramatically in the last 9 months or so. - The old image was squashfs plus minimal writable jffs2; the new is an initramfs only build. My gut instinct is that the fault is loader related because the new image in ELF format (no lzma-loader) loads and runs fine via tftp boot. I am waiting for a jtag cable to recover CFE (the serial console is dead). Once I have that I can test whether the patch helps or not. One gap in my my knowledge: which code actually loads squashfs into memory - is that lzma-loader or something between lzma-loader and kernel start please?
On 26 August 2014 08:25:44 BST, Mathias Adam <m.adam--open...@adamis.de> wrote: >Hi Stephen, > >do you still have the old working trx, or better, remember how you >created >it? > >That might help debugging the "Starting program" hang... > >Mathias > > >Am Di, 26.08.2014, 04:34 schrieb Stephen Parry: >> No sorry - I did not explain carefully enough: >> 1. About 9 months ago I built a trx using trunk that flashed and >worked >> OK. >> 2. Two weeks ago I built a new image. This loaded and tested fine as >ELF >> via tftp boot so I flashed the trx using MTD command. the resulting >image >> hung after "starting program at 8001000" just as you described. >> 3. I incorrectly thought the problem was that I had flashed >incorrectly so >> tried CFE flash command instead. >> 4. I got parameters of flash command wrong and overwrote CFE. >> 5. I saw your patch and kicked myself for not having seen it sooner. >> >> I was supporting (seconding) your patch by trying to explain that had >I >> seen it 15 minutes earlier it would have saved me from a dead router. >> >> Rafa? Mi?ecki <zaj...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>First of all, I really don't think this patch itself may cause any >>> problem with MTD/partitions/bricking. >> >>> I don't understand much of your report. > It was working previously? >But >>> then you say it was hanging? Then you > mention some MTD command >>> failing...? What did you do in CFE? Which firmware did you try to >>> install at all? What was the log of firmware booting & destroying >your >>> CFE? >>> This "report" says nothing >>> :(_______________________________________________ >> openwrt-devel mailing list >> openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org >> https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel >> -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
