KingnovyPC upgrade firewall micro appliance

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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I wanted to change the OS on my KingnovyPC Upgrade Firewall Micro Appliance and the manufacturer stated it can run OpenWRT, unfortunately I can not find which Image to download. Does anyone have experience with these mini computers to get me started... Please :slight_smile:

KingnovyPC:
Upgrade Firewall Micro Appliance,
4 Port i225 2.5G LAN Fanless Mini PC Celeron N5105,
8GB 2666Mhz DDR4 128GB NVMe SSD Gigabit Ethernet
AES-NI VPN Router Openwrt Barebone

  • Intel 4 Core Celeron N5105 , 64 bit, up to 2.9GHz, AES-NI hardware support

  • 4x Intel i225-V B3 2.5G RJ45 LANs, 2x USB 3.0,2x USB 2.0 1xUSB Type-C, 1xTF card slot, 1x HDMI,1* DP

  • SODIMM slots are DDR4 and up to DDR4-2933 2666Mhz

  • Motherboard: MW CW-N6000

  • BIOS: American Megatrends International, LLC 5.19
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Grab the regular x86_64 image. Might need to add the I225 driver though.

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Modern hardware has an EFI BIOS, so use the EFI image unless you want to (and can) go into the BIOS to enable legacy booting. Then there is a choice of squashfs or ext4, I recommend the squashfs for beginners.

You can run OpenWrt from a USB flash drive after setting the BIOS to boot from USB. If the primary internal drive is not removable, boot OpenWrt or any live Linux on a flash drive and use it to write another copy of OpenWrt to the internal drive. OpenWrt does not have an "installer" program.

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Thank you :slight_smile: I will give it a go.

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Thank you so much for the information.
Being able to boot from a USB could prove to be helpful if something goes wrong. :slightly_smiling_face: