I guess enough tries....my new boot log looks good for some testing...... and will purchase new router ...any recommendations under 80$ so it is easier for installing & troubleshooting openwrt.
Plus, please suggest any HACK to avoid halting auto boot to type boot (via serial console every time)....though the router is on UPS.
New Log:
U-Boot 1.1.4-gbec22107-dirty (Nov 18 2020 - 18:01:26)
ap152 - Dragonfly 1.0
DRAM: 128 MB
Top of RAM usable for U-Boot at: 88000000
Reserving 408k for U-Boot at: 87f98000
Reserving 16448k for malloc() at: 86f88000
Reserving 44 Bytes for Board Info at: 86f87fd4
Reserving 36 Bytes for Global Data at: 86f87fb0
Reserving 128k for boot params() at: 86f67fb0
Stack Pointer at: 86f67f98
Now running in RAM - U-Boot at: 87f98000
Flash Manuf Id 0xef, DeviceId0 0x40, DeviceId1 0x18
flash size 16MB, sector count = 256
Flash: 16 MB
Using default environment
In: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial
Net: ath_gmac_enet_initialize...
No valid address in Flash. Using fixed address
ath_gmac_enet_initialize: reset mask:c02200
athr_mgmt_init ::done
Dragonfly ----> S17 PHY *
athrs17_reg_init: complete
SGMII in forced mode
athr_gmac_sgmii_setup SGMII done
: cfg1 0x80000000 cfg2 0x7114
eth0: 00:03:7f:09:0b:ad
eth0 up
eth0
Setting 0x181162c0 to 0x40802100
[NM_Error](nm_api_checkInteger) 00331: factory boot check integer flag is not 1.
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
ath>
ath> boot [I have to type this every time]
## Booting image at 9f040000 ...
Image Name: MIPS OpenWrt Linux-5.10.221
Created: 2024-07-15 22:25:54 UTC
Image Type: MIPS Linux Kernel Image (lzma compressed)
Data Size: 2269099 Bytes = 2.2 MB
Load Address: 80060000
Entry Point: 80060000
Verifying Checksum at 0x9f040040 ...OK
Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
No initrd
## Transferring control to Linux (at address 80060000) ...
## Giving linux memsize in bytes, 134217728
Starting kernel ...
[ 0.000000] Linux version 5.10.221 (builder@buildhost) (mips-openwrt-linux-musl-gcc (OpenWrt GCC 11.2.0 r20341-591b7e93d3) 11.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.37) #0 Mon Jul 15 22:25:54 2024
[ 0.000000] printk: bootconsole [early0] enabled
[ 0.000000] CPU0 revision is: 00019750 (MIPS 74Kc)
[ 0.000000] MIPS: machine is TP-Link Archer A7 v5
[ 0.000000] SoC: Qualcomm Atheros QCA956X ver 1 rev 0
[ 0.000000] Initrd not found or empty - disabling initrd
[ 0.000000] Primary instruction cache 64kB, VIPT, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes.
[ 0.000000] Primary data cache 32kB, 4-way, VIPT, cache aliases, linesize 32 bytes
[ 0.000000] Zone ranges:
[ 0.000000] Normal [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff]
[ 0.000000] Movable zone start for each node
[ 0.000000] Early memory node ranges
[ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff]
[ 0.000000] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff]
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 32480
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200n8 rootfstype=squashfs,jffs2
[ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes, linear)
[ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes, linear)
[ 0.000000] Writing ErrCtl register=00000000
[ 0.000000] Readback ErrCtl register=00000000
[ 0.000000] mem auto-init: stack:off, heap alloc:off, heap free:off
[ 0.000000] Memory: 121024K/131072K available (5913K kernel code, 605K rwdata, 752K rodata, 1232K init, 210K bss, 10048K reserved, 0K cma-reserved)
[ 0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
[ 0.000000] NR_IRQS: 51
[ 0.000000] CPU clock: 775.000 MHz
[ 0.000000] clocksource: MIPS: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 4932285024 ns
[ 0.000008] sched_clock: 32 bits at 387MHz, resolution 2ns, wraps every 5541893118ns
[ 0.008285] Calibrating delay loop... 385.84 BogoMIPS (lpj=1929216)
[ 0.074817] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[ 0.079813] Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)
[ 0.087527] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)
[ 0.097655] dyndbg: Ignore empty _ddebug table in a CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG_CORE build
[ 0.108328] clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 19112604462750000 ns
[ 0.118731] futex hash table entries: 256 (order: -1, 3072 bytes, linear)
[ 0.125998] pinctrl core: initialized pinctrl subsystem
[ 0.135584] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 0.141022] thermal_sys: Registered thermal governor 'step_wise'
[ 0.191478] clocksource: Switched to clocksource MIPS
[ 0.204323] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 0.209125] IP idents hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes, linear)
[ 0.217496] tcp_listen_portaddr_hash hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)
[ 0.226418] TCP established hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)
[ 0.234517] TCP bind hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)
[ 0.241963] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 1024)
[ 0.248778] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)
[ 0.255714] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)
[ 0.263398] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 0.268018] PCI: CLS 0 bytes, default 32
[ 0.277974] workingset: timestamp_bits=14 max_order=15 bucket_order=1
[ 0.288407] squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher
[ 0.294616] jffs2: version 2.2 (NAND) (SUMMARY) (LZMA) (RTIME) (CMODE_PRIORITY) (c) 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
[ 0.306590] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 251)
[ 0.316974] pinctrl-single 1804002c.pinmux: 544 pins, size 68
[ 0.323568] gpio-export gpio-export: 1 gpio(s) exported
[ 0.329861] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 16 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[ 0.338694] printk: console [ttyS0] disabled
[ 0.343314] 18020000.uart: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x18020000 (irq = 9, base_baud = 1562500) is a 16550A
[ 0.352430] printk: console [ttyS0] enabled
[ 0.352430] printk: console [ttyS0] enabled
[ 0.361489] printk: bootconsole [early0] disabled
[ 0.361489] printk: bootconsole [early0] disabled
[ 0.387817] spi-nor spi0.0: w25q128 (16384 Kbytes)
[ 0.392893] 7 fixed-partitions partitions found on MTD device spi0.0
[ 0.399498] OF: Bad cell count for /ahb/spi@1f000000/flash@0/partitions
[ 0.406370] OF: Bad cell count for /ahb/spi@1f000000/flash@0/partitions
[ 0.413633] OF: Bad cell count for /ahb/spi@1f000000/flash@0/partitions
[ 0.420489] OF: Bad cell count for /ahb/spi@1f000000/flash@0/partitions
[ 0.427932] Creating 7 MTD partitions on "spi0.0":
[ 0.432950] 0x000000000000-0x000000020000 : "factory-uboot"
[ 0.443503] 0x000000020000-0x000000040000 : "u-boot"
[ 0.449571] 0x000000040000-0x000000f00000 : "firmware"
[ 0.457468] 2 uimage-fw partitions found on MTD device firmware
[ 0.463633] Creating 2 MTD partitions on "firmware":
[ 0.468772] 0x000000000000-0x000000229feb : "kernel"
[ 0.473919] mtd: partition "kernel" doesn't end on an erase/write block -- force read-only
[ 0.484079] 0x000000229feb-0x000000ec0000 : "rootfs"
[ 0.489215] mtd: partition "rootfs" doesn't start on an erase/write block boundary -- force read-only
[ 0.499591] mtd: setting mtd4 (rootfs) as root device
[ 0.505719] 1 squashfs-split partitions found on MTD device rootfs
[ 0.512160] 0x000000630000-0x000000ec0000 : "rootfs_data"
[ 0.518662] 0x000000f40000-0x000000f60000 : "info"
[ 0.526095] 0x000000f60000-0x000000fb0000 : "config"
[ 0.532206] 0x000000fc0000-0x000000fd0000 : "partition-table"
[ 0.540459] 0x000000ff0000-0x000001000000 : "art"
[ 1.265513] switch0: Atheros AR8337 rev. 2 switch registered on mdio.0
[ 1.923018] ag71xx 19000000.eth: connected to PHY at mdio.0:00 [uid=004dd036, driver=Atheros AR8216/AR8236/AR8316]
[ 1.934308] eth0: Atheros AG71xx at 0xb9000000, irq 4, mode: sgmii
[ 1.941143] i2c /dev entries driver
[ 1.947417] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 1.962344] Segment Routing with IPv6
[ 1.966244] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 1.970909] bridge: filtering via arp/ip/ip6tables is no longer available by default. Update your scripts to load br_netfilter if you need this.
[ 1.984341] 8021q: 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8
[ 1.989683] PCI host bridge /ahb/pcie-controller@18250000 ranges:
[ 1.996051] MEM 0x0000000012000000..0x0000000013ffffff
[ 2.001450] IO 0x0000000000000000..0x0000000000000000
[ 2.007023] PCI host bridge to bus 0000:00
[ 2.011267] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [mem 0x12000000-0x13ffffff]
[ 2.018398] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [io 0x0000]
[ 2.024167] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [??? 0x00000000 flags 0x0]
[ 2.031176] pci_bus 0000:00: No busn resource found for root bus, will use [bus 00-ff]
[ 2.039408] pci 0000:00:00.0: [168c:003c] type 00 class 0x028000
[ 2.045658] pci 0000:00:00.0: reg 0x10: [mem 0x00000000-0x001fffff 64bit]
[ 2.052719] pci 0000:00:00.0: reg 0x30: [mem 0x00000000-0x0000ffff pref]
[ 2.059713] pci 0000:00:00.0: supports D1 D2
[ 2.065087] pci_bus 0000:00: busn_res: [bus 00-ff] end is updated to 00
[ 2.071971] pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0x12000000-0x121fffff 64bit]
[ 2.079535] pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 6: assigned [mem 0x12200000-0x1220ffff pref]
[ 2.089342] clk: Disabling unused clocks
[ 2.103930] VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly on device 31:4.
[ 2.117976] Freeing unused kernel memory: 1232K
[ 2.122681] This architecture does not have kernel memory protection.
[ 2.129342] Run /sbin/init as init process
[ 2.858577] init: Console is alive
[ 2.862613] init: - watchdog -
[ 4.237286] kmodloader: loading kernel modules from /etc/modules-boot.d/*
[ 4.291762] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 4.297488] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 4.303108] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 4.315329] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
[ 4.325008] fsl-ehci: Freescale EHCI Host controller driver
[ 4.332935] ehci-platform: EHCI generic platform driver
[ 4.338662] ehci-platform 1b000000.usb: EHCI Host Controller
[ 4.344597] ehci-platform 1b000000.usb: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[ 4.352836] ehci-platform 1b000000.usb: irq 13, io mem 0x1b000000
[ 4.381516] ehci-platform 1b000000.usb: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
[ 4.388731] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 4.393420] hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected
[ 4.400754] kmodloader: done loading kernel modules from /etc/modules-boot.d/*
[ 4.418703] init: - preinit -
[ 6.376268] random: jshn: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read)
[ 6.860388] random: jshn: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read)
[ 7.104611] random: jshn: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read)
[ 7.392625] random: jshn: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read)
[ 7.569311] random: jshn: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read)
[ 8.758918] Atheros AR8216/AR8236/AR8316 mdio.0:00: Port 3 is up
[ 8.778335] eth0: link up (1000Mbps/Full duplex)
[ 8.792213] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[ 8.799090] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0.1: link becomes ready
Press the [f] ke[ 8.836184] random: procd: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read)
y and hit [enter] to enter failsafe mode
Press the [1], [2], [3] or [4] key and hit [enter] to select the debug level
[ 13.216486] jffs2: notice: (546) jffs2_build_xattr_subsystem: complete building xattr subsystem, 11 of xdatum (0 unchecked, 3 orphan) and 14 of xref (3 dead, 0 orphan) found.
[ 13.235098] mount_root: switching to jffs2 overlay
[ 13.243748] overlayfs: upper fs does not support tmpfile.
[ 13.256144] urandom-seed: Seeding with /etc/urandom.seed
[ 13.405382] eth0: link down
[ 13.427749] procd: - early -
[ 13.431039] procd: - watchdog -
[ 14.167370] procd: - watchdog -
[ 14.203108] procd: - ubus -
[ 14.309552] random: ubusd: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read)
[ 14.318721] random: ubusd: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read)
[ 14.333504] random: ubusd: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read)
[ 14.343724] procd: - init -
Please press Enter to activate this console.
[ 15.616989] random: jshn: uninitialized urandom read (4 bytes read)
[ 15.726610] kmodloader: loading kernel modules from /etc/modules.d/*
[ 16.262036] Loading modules backported from Linux version v5.15.162-0-gf45bea23c39cb
[ 16.270040] Backport generated by backports.git v5.15.162-1-0-g9fa1c65c
[ 16.937263] PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
[ 16.952518] NET: Registered protocol family 24
[ 17.017705] ath10k 5.15 driver, optimized for CT firmware, probing pci device: 0x3c.
[ 17.042695] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[ 17.051423] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: pci irq legacy oper_irq_mode 1 irq_mode 0 reset_mode 0
[ 18.052602] urngd: v1.0.2 started.
[ 19.781827] random: crng init done
[ 19.785353] random: 24 urandom warning(s) missed due to ratelimiting
[ 22.086142] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: qca988x hw2.0 target 0x4100016c chip_id 0x043202ff sub 0000:0000
[ 22.095735] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: kconfig debug 0 debugfs 1 tracing 0 dfs 1 testmode 0
[ 22.107683] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: firmware ver 10.1-ct-8x-__fW-022-ecad3248 api 2 features wmi-10.x,has-wmi-mgmt-tx,mfp,txstatus-noack,wmi-10.x-CT,ratemask-CT,txrate-CT,get-temp-CT,tx-rc-CT,cust-stats-CT,retry-gt2-CT,txrate2-CT,beacon-cb-CT,wmi-block-ack-CT crc32 3e4cf97f
[ 22.223365] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: Loading BDF type 0
[ 23.122253] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: board_file api 1 bmi_id N/A crc32 bebc7c08
[ 24.134607] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: 10.1 wmi init: vdevs: 16 peers: 127 tid: 256
[ 24.151397] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: wmi print 'P 128 V 8 T 410'
[ 24.157893] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: wmi print 'msdu-desc: 1424 sw-crypt: 0 ct-sta: 0'
[ 24.166203] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: wmi print 'alloc rem: 24984 iram: 38672'
[ 24.216302] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: htt-ver 2.1 wmi-op 2 htt-op 2 cal file max-sta 128 raw 0 hwcrypto 1
[ 24.229238] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: NOTE: Firmware DBGLOG output disabled in debug_mask: 0x10000000
[ 24.481939] ieee80211 phy1: Atheros AR9561 Rev:0 mem=0xca04ceec, irq=2
[ 24.522036] kmodloader: done loading kernel modules from /etc/modules.d/*
[ 43.871055] eth0: link up (1000Mbps/Full duplex)
[ 43.892057] br-lan: port 1(eth0.1) entered blocking state
[ 43.897648] br-lan: port 1(eth0.1) entered disabled state
[ 43.903558] device eth0.1 entered promiscuous mode
[ 43.908512] device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
[ 43.916937] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[ 43.945807] br-lan: port 1(eth0.1) entered blocking state
[ 43.951400] br-lan: port 1(eth0.1) entered forwarding state
[ 44.901827] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): br-lan: link becomes ready