Cannot permanently flash Mikrotik hAP ac

Hi,
I have followed OpenWRT installation guide for Mikrotik.
I can successfully boot rb-nor-flash-16M-ac-initramfs-kernel.bin image from network (from another OpenWRT router).
But when I try to flash OpenWRT permanently with rb-nor-flash-16M-ac-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin image, nothing happens. Router reboots with RouterOS again.
Not sure if I need rbcfg, I thought I don't and LUCI would do everything, but I cannot install rbcfg anyway, because I get error about /overlay not available.

root@OpenWrt:~# opkg install rbcfg
Installing rbcfg (2) to root...
Collected errors:
 * verify_pkg_installable: Only have 0kb available on filesystem /overlay, pkg rbcfg needs 6
 * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package rbcfg.
root@OpenWrt:~# df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs                    62544      1008     61536   2% /tmp
tmpfs                      512         0       512   0% /dev
root@OpenWrt:~#

Also, I do not see anything under /proc/mtd
Is it OK?

root@OpenWrt:~# cat /proc/mtd
dev:    size   erasesize  name
root@OpenWrt:~#

What am I missing to flash OpenWRT to Mikrotik hAP ac?
OpenWRT from netboot looks ok on this router. Strange though I don't see 802.11ac available, only 802.11n.

## Status

### System

Hostname

OpenWrt

Model

MikroTik RouterBOARD 962UiGS-5HacT2HnT

Architecture

Qualcomm Atheros QCA9558 ver 1 rev 0

Firmware Version

OpenWrt 18.06.1 r7258-5eb055306f / LuCI openwrt-18.06 branch (git-18.228.31946-f64b152)

Kernel Version

4.9.120

Local Time

Thu Jan 3 16:48:36 2019

Uptime

0h 3m 52s

Thanks!

Found answer to my problem here
Now I only have to learn how to patch and compile OpenWRT...

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