Xiaomi AX3000T - Install Openwrt firmware and U-Boot

[cacodemon79]

Hi everyone, in few days I will receive the Xiaomi AX3000T.

I will install the Openwrt firmware and OpenWrt U-Boot.

I have two questions:

1. Is it better to first install Openwrt firmware and then U-Boot or, considering that U-Boot should allow (if I understood correctly) to upload an Openwrt firmware, is it better to first install U-Boot and then the Openwrt firmware through U-Boot GUI at router startup?

2. For the U-Boot installation, in the AX3000T Openwrt page instructions the first command to send is

1. Flash openwrt-mediatek-filogic-xiaomi_mi-router-ax3000t-ubootmod-initramfs-recovery.itb

ubiformat /dev/mtd8 -y -f /tmp/openwrt-mediatek-filogic-xiaomi_mi-router-ax3000t-ubootmod-initramfs-recovery.itb

However, in the Developers section of the forum a user reported that the installation failed ...

@macchiato

I'm failing installing uboot-mod from compiled snapshots.

root@OpenWrt:~# ubiformat /dev/mtd8 -y -f /tmp/openwrt-mediatek-filogic-xiaomi_mi-router-ax3000t-ubootmod-initramfs-recovery.itb
ubiformat: mtd8 (nand), size 35651584 bytes (34.0 MiB), 272 eraseblocks of 131072 bytes (128.0 KiB), min. I/O size 2048 bytes
libscan: scanning eraseblock 271 -- 100 % complete  
ubiformat: 272 eraseblocks have valid erase counter, mean value is 2
ubiformat: error!: file "/tmp/openwrt-mediatek-filogic-xiaomi_mi-router-ax3000t-ubootmod-initramfs-recovery.itb" (size 8060928 bytes) is not multiple of eraseblock size (131072 bytes)
           error 0 (No error information)

root@OpenWrt:~# cat /etc/openwrt_release 
DISTRIB_ID='OpenWrt'
DISTRIB_RELEASE='SNAPSHOT'
DISTRIB_REVISION='r24770-066b0fee76'
DISTRIB_TARGET='mediatek/filogic'
DISTRIB_ARCH='aarch64_cortex-a53'
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION='OpenWrt SNAPSHOT r24770-066b0fee76'
DISTRIB_TAINTS='no-all'
root@OpenWrt:~# uname -a 
Linux OpenWrt 5.15.146 #0 SMP Sun Jan 7 15:56:05 2024 aarch64 GNU/Linux
root@OpenWrt:~# cat /proc/mtd 
dev:    size   erasesize  name
mtd0: 00100000 00020000 "BL2"
mtd1: 00040000 00020000 "Nvram"
mtd2: 00040000 00020000 "Bdata"
mtd3: 00200000 00020000 "Factory"
mtd4: 00200000 00020000 "FIP"
mtd5: 00040000 00020000 "crash"
mtd6: 00040000 00020000 "crash_log"
mtd7: 00040000 00020000 "KF"
mtd8: 02200000 00020000 "ubi_kernel"
mtd9: 04e00000 00020000 "ubi"
root@OpenWrt:~#

currently I have installed the stock layout self compiled snapshots which are working great.

and another user reported that

@dom0815

From my point of view in this step the image openwrt-mediatek-filogic-xiaomi_mi-router-ax3000t-ubootmod-initramfs-factory.ubi has to be flashed (not the .itb image)

I could successfully update to the U-Boot layout with this step.

So, what is the correct procedure to follow? I would not want to brick my device.

Thanks in advance for your support.

[frollic]

@cacodemon79

So, what is the correct procedure to follow?

Xiaomi AX3000T

[cacodemon79]

Hi, I Will try with .itb image and will see.

What about question 1?

Thanks.

[frollic]

simply follow the guide,.

[cacodemon79]

Just for information for everyone, from the "For Developers" section, thread "OpenWrt support for Xiaomi AX3000T", there is another proof that the installation instructions relevant to U-Boot mod in the wiki are not correct at all ...

@johndg

you're correct.
so the wiki has a mistake and the lines

1. Flash openwrt-mediatek-filogic-xiaomi_mi-router-ax3000t-ubootmod-initramfs-recovery.itb

ubiformat /dev/mtd8 -y -f /tmp/openwrt-mediatek-filogic-xiaomi_mi-router-ax3000t-ubootmod-initramfs-recovery.itb

should be

1. Flash openwrt-mediatek-filogic-xiaomi_mi-router-ax3000t-ubootmod-initramfs-factory.ubi

ubiformat /dev/mtd8 -y -f /tmp/openwrt-mediatek-filogic-xiaomi_mi-router-ax3000t-ubootmod-initramfs-factory.ubi

with this the uboot modification is a success

[cacodemon79]

I followed the modified guide and installed successfully Openwrt and OpenWrt U-Boot (including recovery boot feature).

Now, how can I test if U-Boot web GUI (for firmware update) is working well? How can I enter it?

Thanks.

[cacodemon79]

No One?

Maybe I should post this question in the Developers section?

[vincejv]

bump, I would like to know as well, what does U-Boot with recovery and without recovery imply?

Does this mean without recovery = cannot be recovered using TFTP??
Or does it imply only that recovery cannot be done over U-boot web? Sorry for bumping, but I don't seem to see any updated information regarding the difference between with recovery and without recovery.