Boot openwrt from flash drive on turris omnia

moham_96 · February 2, 2022, 2:25pm

Hi,
I have a turris omnia router that has a dead EMMC chip, turris support recommended to me that i boot from Msata or a flash drive, I have booted their turris os from a flash drive successfully by following this guide https://docs.turris.cz/hw/omnia/ssd-boot/

i just ommitted the first step(didn't make a backup since i don't have a running system to backup) and instead used omnia-medkit-latest.tar.gz as the backup, this works fine and i can boot without a problem but now i want to boot upstream openwrt from flash drive how can i do that?

The openwrt-medkit only contains a kernel and a dtb file and doesn't contain a rootfs

frollic · February 2, 2022, 2:28pm

is it x86 ?

moham_96 · February 2, 2022, 3:10pm

No it's not, it has an ARMv7 CPU Marvell Armada 385

anon50098793 · February 2, 2022, 3:17pm

moham_96 · February 2, 2022, 3:49pm

The wiki only details how to install to EMMC, unfortunately my EMMC is dead and i have to boot from a flash drive

anon50098793 · February 2, 2022, 3:50pm

have you read it?

frollic · February 2, 2022, 4:00pm

since it's using a recent uboot, you can probably change the boot order, or remove the emmc bootability all together.

moham_96 · February 3, 2022, 7:36am

Damn you are right, the solution was at the end of the page under bootloader mods.

thanks

system · February 13, 2022, 7:37am

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