[Solved] Advice to remove overlay/upper files corrupted my device

[thomasi]

Hello, I am a new user of openwrt. I have installed image on TP-LINK WPA8631P. After a few moments of trying to configure it, I received a message that /rom is Read-Only.

When logging into SSH, there was a message to remove files from /overlay/upper. I went into /overlay/upper and performed a delete of everything.

Then reboot.

The router now won't boot with openwrt, and when I connect lan to it it pops up the network name TPLINK. I tried using the reset button, but it doesn't help. Is it possible to do something about this?

[psherman]

Try booting into failsafe mode and resetting your device to defaults.

Failsafe Mode, Factory Reset, and Recovery Mode

[mk24]

Since it is only 8 MB flash you will need to be very careful installing packages and likely will need to resort to custom images (firmware-selector.openwrt.org) to run anything of size e.g. OpenVPN.

The best way to recover from overfilling the flash usually is to reset to default and start over.

[thomasi]

I took the hint and put the device in failsafe mode. I then used the command

jffs2reset && reboot now

by which I restored the OpenWrt baseline version.

Thank you for the hint.

[psherman]

You’re welcome.

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