Boot failure x86 PC

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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Hi. Im stuggling to install openwrt on a mini pc i have.

I have downloaded the image and flahsed to a usb drive. I get to the Grub screen and select openwrt. My pc then will reboot and the process starts again.

Ive tried the following

  1. Flashed a Usb drive
  2. Flash the satat ssd directly
  3. Insatll ubuntu and checked its x64 and Eufi
  4. Flahsed the usb from inside linux
  5. Flashing the HDD from linux.

Spec
Intel® Celeron® J6412
2x intel 1211at
8gb ddr4 ram

All giving the same result. Indont get any error just a boot loop. Any ideas?
Ive tried this on another pc i have and this works. But this doesnt have dual lan lile the device i want to use.

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Update. Tried on two other machines. These boot fine.
Only difference i can see is these have a lagacy boot option. My other device doesnt.

Could this be the issue?

3

make sure you can turn off secure boot and use efi image
or go legacy with out efi

4

Thanks. Ive tried that and got the same issues :sad_but_relieved_face:

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Just a try, edit the kernel command line using grub [E] to drop the serial console (console=/dev/tty1) and try to boot OpenWrt that way [F10].

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No joy. Thank for the suggestion.

7

Specifically, what's the filename of the image you downloaded and using currently on the machine where it doesn't work? Is the machine configured to boot in UEFI mode, legacy mode, or either? Is secure boot enabled? Also which media is the image installed on? Internal hdd/ssd, external HDD/USB, external thumb drive? Let's forget your previous attempts and focus on the current one.

Regardless, theoretically there might be an issue in grub - you could try a tool like ez2boot and run the OS from it (bypassing grub). If that works then maybe the solution is using a different bootloader, instead of grub.

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I am using openwrt-24.10.1-x86-64-generic-ext4-combined-efi.img
Secure boot is disabled.
Currently installed to the HDD, I also have it installed on a USB for testing
I cannot find anything in the bios settings for UEFI or legacy boot. However, windows and ubuntu installed as UEFI.
I will have a look at the bootloader, im not the most fantatic on linix.