Hey I bought this router recently and I spent 3 hours following these steps over and over and I cant update Openwrt to the current version.
These are the files I installed using uboot
/openwrt$ sha256sum *
a1c37b24cc3f2c419ac570e18271ce096963c4bdbdfa433a577075d6165b95d8 openwrt-21.02.0-ipq40xx-generic-glinet_gl-s1300-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin
44aa7fa97f4313a96ab70513104733307e34b51ef243c6751c3096ba56e04c04 s1300-factory-to-openwrt.img
I was able to ssh into the router
sh root@192.168.8.1
root@192.168.8.1's password:
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For those about to rock... (Chaos Calmer, e7067e3+r49254)
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I tried to upgrade from the cli and it doesnt upgrade from chaos calmer after restarting
I ran
sysupgrade -v openwrt-21.02.0-ipq40xx-generic-glinet_gl-s1300-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin
It seems like the internal memory is still in read only mode and even if I install the 'openwrt-21.02*' bin it doesnt make a difference. Is anyone using this router and had the same problems?
I also tried to force install it and it failed
root@GL-S1300:/tmp# sha256sum openwrt-21.02.0-rc3-ipq40xx-generic-glinet_gl-s1300-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin
9200e4bce851f88b6bb4b0bbbf28f5e88a0834b19522b99d927a0c4dc7c22df0 openwrt-21.02.0-rc3-ipq40xx-generic-glinet_gl-s1300-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin
root@GL-S1300:/tmp# sysupgrade -n -v -F openwrt-21.02.0-rc3-ipq40xx-generic-glinet_gl-s1300-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin
Sending TERM to remaining processes ... logd ubusd netifd gl_crond dnsmasq sh acfg_tool askfirst smbd nmbd ntpd gl-ble-daemon sh gltertf lighttpd rngd sleep
Sending KILL to remaining processes ... ntpd rngd askfirst
Switching to ramdisk...
Performing system upgrade...
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
4194304 bytes (4.0MB) copied, 0.090966 seconds, 44.0MB/s
0+1 records in
0+1 records out
3408183 bytes (3.3MB) copied, 0.073613 seconds, 44.2MB/s
Could not open mtd device: /dev/mtd8
Can't open device for writing!
Upgrade completed
Rebooting system...