On Mikrotik SPI NOR devices, the firmware partition must be erased when flashing from stock firmware, otherwise leftover bits (in particular a kernel signature) can trigger a boot loop.
When booted from initramfs (the only way to install OpenWRT on these devices), this patch unconditionally erases the firmware partition in the do_upgrade() stage for all supported SPI NOR devices. This is forward-ported from ed49d0876 and 20452a8db Signed-off-by: Thibaut VARÈNE <ha...@slashdirt.org> --- target/linux/ath79/mikrotik/base-files/lib/upgrade/platform.sh | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/target/linux/ath79/mikrotik/base-files/lib/upgrade/platform.sh b/target/linux/ath79/mikrotik/base-files/lib/upgrade/platform.sh index d79bd03af5..d7fac35708 100644 --- a/target/linux/ath79/mikrotik/base-files/lib/upgrade/platform.sh +++ b/target/linux/ath79/mikrotik/base-files/lib/upgrade/platform.sh @@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ platform_do_upgrade() { platform_do_upgrade_mikrotik_nand "$1" ;; *) + # NOR devices: erase firmware if booted from initramfs + [ -z "$(rootfs_type)" ] && mtd erase firmware default_do_upgrade "$1" ;; esac -- 2.21.1 (Apple Git-122.3) _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel