[SOLVED]Copy router to router firmware

[oslyak]

Hi!

I have 2 identical routers Archer C7(RU) ver: 5.0
To the both routers I have access throught UART console.

On the first one installed OpenWRT 18.0.6, but WiFi and USB does not works.
On the second - original firmware.

My goal to restore original firmware on the first from the second router.

But original router has no "firmware" partition and I do not how to do it.

First(OpenWRT) router partitions:

[    0.637482] Creating 6 MTD partitions on "spi0.0":
[    0.642441] 0x000000000000-0x000000020000 : "factory-uboot"
[    0.649815] 0x000000020000-0x000000040000 : "u-boot"
[    0.656701] 0x000000050000-0x000000060000 : "art"
[    0.663292] 0x0000000c0000-0x000000240000 : "kernel"
[    0.670123] 0x000000240000-0x000000fc0000 : "rootfs"
[    0.676643] mtd: device 4 (rootfs) set to be root filesystem
[    0.682587] 1 squashfs-split partitions found on MTD device rootfs
[    0.688972] 0x000000470000-0x000000fc0000 : "rootfs_data"
[    0.696340] 0x0000000c0000-0x000000fc0000 : "firmware"

cat /proc/mtd 
dev:    size   erasesize  name
mtd0: 00020000 00010000 "factory-uboot"
mtd1: 00020000 00010000 "u-boot"
mtd2: 00010000 00010000 "art"
mtd3: 00180000 00010000 "kernel"
mtd4: 00d80000 00010000 "rootfs"
mtd5: 00b50000 00010000 "rootfs_data"
mtd6: 00f00000 00010000 "firmware"

Second(Original) router partitions:

[    0.460000] Creating 5 MTD partitions on "spi0.0":
[    0.460000] 0x000000000000-0x000000020000 : "factory-uboot"
[    0.470000] 0x000000020000-0x000000050000 : "u-boot"
[    0.480000] 0x000000050000-0x000000060000 : "ART"
[    0.480000] 0x000000060000-0x0000001e0000 : "uImage"
[    0.490000] 0x0000001e0000-0x000001000000 : "rootfs"
[    0.500000] mtd: partition "rootfs" set to be root filesystem

cat /proc/mtd 
dev:    size   erasesize  name
mtd0: 00020000 00010000 "factory-uboot"
mtd1: 00030000 00010000 "u-boot"
mtd2: 00010000 00010000 "ART"
mtd3: 00180000 00010000 "uImage"
mtd4: 00e20000 00010000 "rootfs"

Made dump of all mtd's

Tried

mtd -r  write /tmp/mtd3_uImage.backup firmware

That did not help, after that "Bad magic number", so I restored OpenWRT.

So how to make copy of router?

[rmilecki]

It seems OpenWrt doesn't have any partition covering 0x60000 - 0xc0000 flash range. It's weird as apparently OpenWrt has kernel at 0xc0000 and U-Boot seems to boot it successfully.

Is there really anything in the 0x60000 - 0xc0000 range? Try dumping that range on original firmware.

[mk24]

I suggest TFTP recovery as the most straightforward and least risky way to revert to stock.

[oslyak]

I restored ART partition, after that radio begun works.
Installed USB drivers and USB came back to life

opkg install kmod-usb2 kmod-usb3 kmod-usb-storage-uas
So I do not need restore original firmware any more.

TFTP recovery with original firmware does not works.
Showed error or simply reboot.
Tried to strip it, without success.