Netgear R7800 / JTAG

Installing and Using OpenWrt

hnyman February 14, 2020, 9:38am 7

perceival:

I recall someone on the forum described similar issue and that was caused by failed fragment of flash memory. Stock firmware was able to skip failed region but not the OpenWrt. Although there was workaround identified but not the simple one.

This is the referenced discussion about it:

R7800 -> Flashing openwrt causes bootloop (bad block in kernel area) Installing and Using OpenWrt

Hi guys Taken over here from Hynmans custom build thread. I tried to flash various openwrt versions to my new R7800 router. They all end in a bootloop. No matter what I flash, how I flash )web or tftp) it, I end up in this boot loop if its not the stock or Voxel's firmware. Comments from Hynman: Mac2 unit failed Mac1 unit failed ... Skipping bad block 0x014a0000 ... Skipping bad block 0x014a0000 ... [ 2.473589] UBI error: no valid UBI magic found inside mt⸮ [ 2.479930] VFS: Cannot ope…

show post in topic

Home
Categories
Guidelines
Terms of Service
Privacy Policy

Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled