OpenWrt - BackFire - 10.03.1 - Asus WL700gE

Submitted by back2basic on Tue, 08/14/2012 - 12:32

Hello Guys / Girls,

Nice to see you back again here .

I'm also back again ;)

I noticed that the WL700gE is still sold in some contries.
I'm currenlty reading up on the changes in the 10.03 image and later this week I'll start the development of the 10.03.1 Image.

As usual there will be a setup for HDD/USB image root.

EDIT:
The new image is ready .. check the download section in this book.
Tutorials on how to flash and install are on there way ...

Note: you have 2 images now.
1) The image you flash (this will probably be the last time that you flash a image)
          This image starts the new kernel on hdd or usb ( depents on the image you flashed )
2) The image on HDD or USB
          For HDD you have to take out the hdd and put it in a pc
          For USB you can take out the stick and connect it to your pc or virtual machine

Running root on USB looks ok so far....(Uploaded image)

Comments

WL700gE (not verified)

Tue, 08/14/2012 - 21:39

Great!

jel (not verified)

Thu, 08/23/2012 - 13:11

Hi,

Thanks for your effort in this work.

I use HDD image and I have encountered some problems. After the installation, everything works. After a reboot, still no problems but if I perform a cold boot (unplug/plug power cord), the 1st image is unable to mount /dev/hda1 (/etc/rc.local). Mount just reports "EXT2-fs: hda1: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features (4).". The only solution I found to fix the problem is to move the HDD into my PC to fsck partitions.

To automatically fix the problem, I made few changes in Basic_HDD content. In the file /etc/rc.d/S98hdd, I added mount -o remount,ro / && e2fsck /dev/hda1 after "swapon /dev/hda2".
I also add a file named /etc/init.d/hdd_lock with this content

#!/bin/sh /etc/rc.common
# Copyright (C) 2006-2010 OpenWrt.org
START=99

start() {
mount -o remount,ro /
}

stop() {
mount -o remount,rw /
}

Now, after the boot, root fs is read-only. To modify it, in the web UI, you have to go to System/Startup and click stop button on hdd_lock service.

The solution is not perfect because now, when I cold boot, the boot still fails (don't know why, I have no console) but a simple reset is sufficient to make the device bootable again.

Hope this will help. Thanks.

back2basic

Fri, 08/24/2012 - 14:59

I'm trying to find a slotion for this issue.
I noticed also that sometimes it doesn't the usb / hdd   
For the hdd image I added fsck in busybox and changed the kecec (rc.local) to do a filecheck before running kecec.
    ( Rebooted like 30 times on the hdd iamge and it was running nicely.)
I uploaded it here:
 http://download.hezik.nl/WL700gE/OpenWrt/10.03.1/HDD_Root/openwrt-brcm47xx-squashfsTest.trx

Probably gonne try to do the same for the hdd image if there is room for fsck.

Grtzzz

back2basic