Problem installing on Linksys EA7500v2

[tmittelstaedt]

I did not find any of this to be the case when I attempted to load OpenWRT on the EA7500v2. Instead, I found that the factory firmware AND openWRT always load the image on to partition 1. See this thread:

Help with Linksys EA7500 v2

OK I did some more research on this. I tried flashing multiple times both from from the command line using sysupgrade -v /tmp/xxxxx where xxxxx was the 23.05.2, 22.03.5 and 21.02.07 and from the luci interface which to my understanding does exactly the same thing. I even tried the December snapshot but that caused Luci to crash so I reverted back to 23.05.2 IN ALL CASES the OpenWRT image ended up on partition 1. IN THIS thread a user swears that they tested flashing and were able to flash t…