Small addition to TOH: Linksys EA7300 v2

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Re: https://forum.openwrt.org/t/strange-ethernet-bug-with-mt7621-device/115279/2

To prevent this, add this code to etc/rc.local

/rom/sbin/mtd unlock s_env
/rom/sbin/mtd erase s_env
exit 0

In my default 21.02.1 release, '/etc/rc.local' was not executable. Executable permissions need to be implemented.
chmod +x /etc/rc.local

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Hi.
I have use this tweak to setup this device a couple of weeks ago. It works fine, despite being quite harsh in principle. I didn't have to use chmod.
EA7300v2 is a newly supported device, so the support is scarse. Probably few people have switched it to OpenWrt. I don't know if another method could be possible, it should involve modifying the bootloader to fix the bootcount issue.

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I've not played with this yet. Per the documentation, it should work on this device.

https://docs.openwrt.melmac.net/luci-app-advanced-reboot/

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It works, I have already tested it.
But this doesn't solve the boot issue, it just switches voluntarily to the "other" partition containing Linksys firmware.

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Weird, even if I put those lines on my EA7300v2 openwrt configuration in /etc/rc.local (after making it executable ofc), I can still revert to stock with 3 failed consecutive boot attempts.
Am I missing something?

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OpenWrt must be installed on partition 1. Install luci-app-advanced-reboot to check on which partition OpenWrt is running.

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Thanks, probably I was missing that part. I'll check.

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