I updated my Netgear EX3800 from OpenWrt 18.06.4 r7808-ef686b7292 to Sysupgrade 21.02.2 image using LuCI choosing to keep the settings.
The power LED is steady amber, others are off. Serial console output is shown below. Is it bricked and how can I recover from this state?
EX3700 UBoot v1.0.3
U-Boot 1.1.3 (Nov 19 2014 - 22:45:38)
Board: Ralink APSoC DRAM: 64 MB
RT2880_GPIOMODE_REG:0x1A311C
RT2880_GPIOMODE_REG:0x1A351C
Stack Pointer at: 83f52f98
relocate_code Pointer at: 83fb4000
enable ephy clock...done. rf reg 29 = 5
SSC disabled.
spi_wait_nsec: 29
spi device id: c2 20 17 c2 20 (2017c220)
find flash: MX25L6405D
flash info: size=0x800000, sector_size=0x10000, n_sectors=0x80
*** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment
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Ralink UBoot Version: 4.2.1.0
EX3700 UBoot Version: v1.0.3
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ASIC 7620_MP (Port5<->None)
DRAM component: 512 Mbits DDR, width 16
DRAM bus: 16 bit
Total memory: 64 MBytes
Flash component: SPI Flash
Date:Nov 19 2014 Time:22:45:38
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icache: sets:512, ways:4, linesz:32 ,total:65536
dcache: sets:256, ways:4, linesz:32 ,total:32768
##### The CPU freq = 580 MHZ ####
estimate memory size =64 Mbytes
Please choose the operation:
1: Load system code to SDRAM via TFTP.
2: Load system code then write to Flash via TFTP.
3: Boot system code via Flash (default).
4: Entr boot command line interface.
7: Load Boot Loader code then write to Flash via Serial.
9: Load Boot Loader code then write to Flash via TFTP. 0
3: System Boot system code via Flash.
NetTxPacket = 0x83FE4CC0
KSEG1ADDR(NetTxPacket) = 0xA3FE4CC0
NetLoop,call eth_halt !
NetLoop,call eth_init !
Trying Eth0 (10/100-M)
Waitting for RX_DMA_BUSY status Start... done
ETH_STATE_ACTIVE!!
LAN MAC: B0:39:56:E3:AF:32
[Listening] for ADVERTISE...
T3T3T3
Retry count exceeded; boot the image as usual
## Booting image at bc050000 ...
Image Name: MIPS OpenWrt Linux-5.4.179
Image Type: MIPS Linux Kernel Image (lzma compressed)
Data Size: 1993402 Bytes = 1.9 MB
Load Address: 80000000
Entry Point: 80000000
Verifying Checksum ... OK
Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
No initrd
## Transferring control to Linux (at address 80000000) ...
## Giving linux memsize in MB, 64
Starting kernel ...
[ 0.000000] Linux version 5.4.179 (builder@buildhost) (gcc version 8.4.0 (OpenWrt GCC 8.4.0 r16495-bf0c965af0)) #0 Wed Feb 16 20:29:10 2022
[ 0.000000] Board has DDR2
[ 0.000000] Analog PMU set to hw control
[ 0.000000] Digital PMU set to hw control
[ 0.000000] SoC Type: MediaTek MT7620A ver:2 eco:6
[ 0.000000] printk: bootconsole [early0] enabled
[ 0.000000] CPU0 revision is: 00019650 (MIPS 24KEc)
[ 0.000000] MIPS: machine is Netgear EX3700/EX3800
[ 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, PIPT, no aliases, linesize 32 bytes
[ 0.000000] Zone ranges:
[ 0.000000] Normal [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000003ffffff]
[ 0.000000] Movable zone start for each node
[ 0.000000] Early memory node ranges
[ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000003ffffff]
[ 0.000000] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000003ffffff]
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 16240
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,57600 rootfstype=squashfs,jffs2
[ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes, linear)
[ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes, linear)
[ 0.000000] Writing ErrCtl register=0007ffa7
[ 0.000000] Readback ErrCtl register=0007ffa7
[ 0.000000] mem auto-init: stack:off, heap alloc:off, heap free:off
[ 0.000000] Memory: 57492K/65536K available (5070K kernel code, 206K rwdata, 632K rodata, 1188K init, 213K bss, 8044K reserved, 0K cma-reserved)
[ 0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
[ 0.000000] NR_IRQS: 256
[ 0.000000] random: get_random_bytes called from 0x805c7a28 with crng_init=0
[ 0.000000] CPU Clock: 580MHz
[ 0.000000] clocksource: systick: mask: 0xffff max_cycles: 0xffff, max_idle_ns: 583261500 ns
[ 0.000000] systick: enable autosleep mode
[ 0.000000] systick: running - mult: 214748, shift: 32
[ 0.000000] clocksource: MIPS: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 6590553264 ns
[ 0.000010] sched_clock: 32 bits at 290MHz, resolution 3ns, wraps every 7405115902ns
[ 0.015502] Calibrating delay loop... 385.02 BogoMIPS (lpj=770048)
[ 0.059573] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[ 0.068958] Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)
[ 0.083369] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)
[ 0.105841] clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 7645041785100000 ns
[ 0.125150] futex hash table entries: 256 (order: -1, 3072 bytes, linear)
[ 0.138738] pinctrl core: initialized pinctrl subsystem
[ 0.150577] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 0.639501] PCI host bridge /pcie@10140000 ranges:
[ 0.648900] MEM 0x0000000020000000..0x000000002fffffff
[ 0.659272] IO 0x0000000010160000..0x000000001016ffff
[ 0.691862] rt2880_gpio 10000600.gpio: registering 24 gpios
[ 0.702922] rt2880_gpio 10000600.gpio: registering 24 irq handlers
[ 0.715502] rt2880_gpio 10000660.gpio: registering 32 gpios
[ 0.726516] rt2880_gpio 10000660.gpio: registering 32 irq handlers
[ 0.739716] PCI host bridge to bus 0000:00
[ 0.747772] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [mem 0x20000000-0x2fffffff]
[ 0.761387] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [io 0x10160000-0x1016ffff]
[ 0.775061] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [??? 0x00000000 flags 0x0]
[ 0.788560] pci_bus 0000:00: No busn resource found for root bus, will use [bus 00-ff]
[ 0.804357] pci 0000:00:00.0: [1814:0801] type 01 class 0x060400
[ 0.816285] pci 0000:00:00.0: reg 0x10: [mem 0x00000000-0x7fffffff]
[ 0.828718] pci 0000:00:00.0: reg 0x14: [mem 0x00000000-0x0000ffff]
[ 0.841255] pci 0000:00:00.0: supports D1
[ 0.849137] pci 0000:00:00.0: PME# supported from D0 D1 D3hot
[ 0.863124] pci 0000:00:00.0: bridge configuration invalid ([bus 00-00]), reconfiguring
[ 0.879173] pci 0000:01:00.0: [14c3:7662] type 00 class 0x028000
[ 0.891067] pci 0000:01:00.0: reg 0x10: [mem 0x00000000-0x000fffff 64bit]
[ 0.904522] pci 0000:01:00.0: reg 0x30: [mem 0x00000000-0x0000ffff pref]
[ 0.917922] pci 0000:01:00.0: PME# supported from D0 D3hot D3cold
[ 0.932316] pci_bus 0000:01: busn_res: [bus 01-ff] end is updated to 01
[ 0.945371] pci_bus 0000:00: busn_res: [bus 00-ff] end is updated to 01
[ 0.958522] pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 0: no space for [mem size 0x80000000]
[ 0.971641] pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 0: failed to assign [mem size 0x80000000]
[ 0.985489] pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 8: assigned [mem 0x20000000-0x200fffff]
[ 0.998992] pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 9: assigned [mem 0x20100000-0x201fffff pref]
[ 1.013355] pci 0000:00:00.0: BAR 1: assigned [mem 0x20200000-0x2020ffff]
[ 1.026867] pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0x20000000-0x200fffff 64bit]
[ 1.041413] pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 6: assigned [mem 0x20100000-0x2010ffff pref]
[ 1.055754] pci 0000:00:00.0: PCI bridge to [bus 01]
[ 1.065620] pci 0000:00:00.0: bridge window [mem 0x20000000-0x200fffff]
[ 1.079122] pci 0000:00:00.0: bridge window [mem 0x20100000-0x201fffff pref]
[ 1.098981] clocksource: Switched to clocksource systick
[ 1.110627] thermal_sys: Registered thermal governor 'step_wise'
[ 1.111162] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 1.131816] IP idents hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes, linear)
[ 1.147057] tcp_listen_portaddr_hash hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)
[ 1.163582] TCP established hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)
[ 1.178795] TCP bind hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)
[ 1.192805] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 1024)
[ 1.205586] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)
[ 1.218495] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)
[ 1.232609] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 1.241236] PCI: CLS 0 bytes, default 32
[ 1.252055] rt-timer 10000100.timer: maximum frequency is 1220Hz
[ 1.266073] workingset: timestamp_bits=14 max_order=14 bucket_order=0
[ 1.287524] squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher
[ 1.299028] jffs2: version 2.2 (NAND) (SUMMARY) (LZMA) (RTIME) (CMODE_PRIORITY) (c) 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
[ 1.334150] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 252)
[ 1.351876] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 16 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[ 1.367501] printk: console [ttyS0] disabled
[ 1.375961] 10000c00.uartlite: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x10000c00 (irq = 20, base_baud = 2500000) is a Palmchip BK-3103
[ 1.395615] printk: console [ttyS0] enabled
[ 1.395615] printk: console [ttyS0] enabled
[ 1.412194] printk: bootconsole [early0] disabled
[ 1.412194] printk: bootconsole [early0] disabled
[ 1.440276] spi spi0.0: force spi mode3
[ 1.448942] spi-nor spi0.0: mx25l6405d (8192 Kbytes)
[ 1.458981] 6 fixed-partitions partitions found on MTD device spi0.0
[ 1.471645] Creating 6 MTD partitions on "spi0.0":
[ 1.481204] 0x000000000000-0x000000030000 : "u-boot"
[ 1.492266] 0x000000030000-0x000000040000 : "config"
[ 1.503488] 0x000000040000-0x000000050000 : "factory"
[ 1.514724] 0x000000050000-0x0000007e0000 : "firmware"
[ 1.530065] 2 uimage-fw partitions found on MTD device firmware
[ 1.541937] Creating 2 MTD partitions on "firmware":
[ 1.551865] 0x000000000000-0x0000001e6afa : "kernel"
[ 1.563033] 0x0000001e6afa-0x000000790000 : "rootfs"
[ 1.573994] mtd: device 5 (rootfs) set to be root filesystem
[ 1.587507] 1 squashfs-split partitions found on MTD device rootfs
[ 1.599898] 0x0000004fd000-0x000000790000 : "rootfs_data"
[ 1.611866] 0x0000007e0000-0x0000007f0000 : "board_data"
[ 1.623728] 0x0000007f0000-0x000000800000 : "nvram"
[ 1.647226] gsw: setting port4 to ephy mode
[ 1.656137] mtk_soc_eth 10100000.ethernet: loaded mt7620 driver
[ 1.668722] mtk_soc_eth 10100000.ethernet eth0: mediatek frame engine at 0xb0100000, irq 5
[ 1.685782] rt2880_wdt 10000120.watchdog: Initialized
[ 1.697617] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 1.711130] Segment Routing with IPv6
[ 1.718631] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 1.727574] bridge: filtering via arp/ip/ip6tables is no longer available by default. Update your scripts to load br_netfilter if you need this.
[ 1.753412] 8021q: 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8
[ 1.766266] unable to read id index table
[ 1.774808] Flash size not aligned to erasesize, reducing to 5796KiB
[ 1.788534] jffs2: jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): Magic bitmask 0x1985 not found at 0x00000000: 0x7368 instead
and on and on it goes