I was able to finally update through a USB stick. Don't know how but this ends 2 months
of frustration. Thanks again for all the help

Ken, first let me say thank you for your help. I will learn how to markdown after this post'.
This was the end of the listing on bootup. I dont seem to be able to input anything after the last line. I have read all of the recommended steps but keep coming up short. After a month
of trying this is the farest I have gotten!
[ 12.097757] jffs2: Empty flash at 0x0050c614 ends at 0x0050c6e0
[ 12.105656] jffs2: Empty flash at 0x0050c6e8 ends at 0x0050d6e0
[ 12.117263] jffs2: Empty flash at 0x0050d6e8 ends at 0x0050f6e0
[ 12.177752] jffs2: Cowardly refusing to erase blocks on filesystem with no va lid JFFS2 nodes
[ 12.186329] jffs2: empty_blocks 405, bad_blocks 0, c->nr_blocks 486
[ 12.192846] VFS: Cannot open root device "(null)" or unknown-block(31,5): err or -5
[ 12.200542] Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the availab le partitions:
[ 12.209020] 1f00 192 mtdblock0 (driver?)
[ 12.214165] 1f01 64 mtdblock1 (driver?)
[ 12.219293] 1f02 64 mtdblock2 (driver?)
[ 12.224435] 1f03 32448 mtdblock3 (driver?)
[ 12.229579] 1f04 1314 mtdblock4 (driver?)
[ 12.234706] 1f05 31133 mtdblock5 (driver?)
[ 12.239849] 1f06 25664 mtdblock6 (driver?)
[ 12.244976] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unkno wn-block(31,5)
[ 12.263186] Rebooting in 1 seconds..

Ok, after following your simple instructions, thank you, I got in! I am trying to update via USB.
I have renamed the file Omega2.bin Im sure I did something wrong?
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Board: Onion Omega2 APSoC DRAM: 128 MB
relocate_code Pointer at: 87f60000
flash manufacture id: c2, device id 20 19
find flash: MX25L25635E
*** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment

============================================
Onion Omega2 UBoot Version: 4.3.0.3

ASIC 7628_MP (Port5<->None)
DRAM component: 1024 Mbits DDR, width 16
DRAM bus: 16 bit
Total memory: 128 MBytes
Flash component: SPI Flash
Date:Oct 18 2016 Time:17:29:05

icache: sets:512, ways:4, linesz:32 ,total:65536
dcache: sets:256, ways:4, linesz:32 ,total:32768
CPU freq = 575 MHZ
Estimated memory size = 128 Mbytes
Resetting MT7628 PHY.
Initializing MT7688 GPIO system.

• Hold Reset button for more options *

You have 40 seconds left to select a menu option...

Please select option:
[ Enter ]: Boot Omega2.
[ 0 ]: Start Web recovery mode.
[ 1 ]: Start command line mode.
[ 2 ]: Flash firmware from USB storage.

Option [B] selected.

Boot Linux from Flash.

Booting image at bc050000 ...

Image Name: MIPS LEDE Linux-4.4.39
Image Type: MIPS Linux Kernel Image (lzma compressed)
Data Size: 1345757 Bytes = 1.3 MB
Load Address: 80000000
Entry Point: 80000000
Verifying Checksum ... OK
Uncompressing Kernel Image ... OK
No initrd

Transferring control to Linux (at address 80000000) ...

Giving linux memsize in MB, 128

Starting kernel ...

[ 0.000000] Linux version 4.4.39 (root@2272a3272872) (gcc version 5.4.0 (LEDE GCC 5.4.0 r2637-18300db) ) #0 Thu Dec 22 16:02:42 2016
[ 0.000000] Board has DDR2
[ 0.000000] Analog PMU set to hw control
[ 0.000000] Digital PMU set to hw control
[ 0.000000] SoC Type: MediaTek MT7688 ver:1 eco:2
[ 0.000000] bootconsole [early0] enabled
[ 0.000000] CPU0 revision is: 00019655 (MIPS 24KEc)
[ 0.000000] MIPS: machine is Onion Omega2+
[ 0.000000] Determined physical RAM map:
[ 0.000000] memory: 08000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] Initrd not found or empty - disabling initrd
[ 0.000000] Zone ranges:
[ 0.000000] Normal [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff]
[ 0.000000] Movable zone start for each node
[ 0.000000] Early memory node ranges
[ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff]
[ 0.000000] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000007ffffff]
[ 0.000000] Primary instruction cache 64kB, VIPT, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes.
[ 0.000000] Primary data cache 32kB, 4-way, PIPT, no aliases, linesize 32 byt es
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pag es: 32512
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200 rootfstype=squashfs,jff s2
[ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 512 (order: -1, 2048 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Writing ErrCtl register=0007e6d0
[ 0.000000] Readback ErrCtl register=0007e6d0
[ 0.000000] Memory: 125488K/131072K available (3103K kernel code, 140K rwdata , 752K rodata, 156K init, 196K bss, 5584K reserved, 0K cma-reserved)
[ 0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
[ 0.000000] NR_IRQS:256
[ 0.000000] intc: using register map from devicetree
[ 0.000000] CPU Clock: 580MHz
[ 0.000000] clocksource_probe: no matching clocksources found
[ 0.000000] clocksource: MIPS: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_i dle_ns: 6590553264 ns
[ 0.000010] sched_clock: 32 bits at 290MHz, resolution 3ns, wraps every 74051 15902ns
[ 0.007521] Calibrating delay loop... 385.84 BogoMIPS (lpj=1929216)
[ 0.070037] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[ 0.074640] Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.080981] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.094390] clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, ma x_idle_ns: 19112604462750000 ns
[ 0.104050] pinctrl core: initialized pinctrl subsystem
[ 0.109784] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 0.134209] mt7621_gpio 10000600.gpio: registering 32 gpios
[ 0.139709] mt7621_gpio 10000600.gpio: registering 32 gpios
[ 0.145179] mt7621_gpio 10000600.gpio: registering 32 gpios
[ 0.151651] i2c-mt7621 10000900.i2c: clock 100KHz, re-start not support
[ 0.159476] clocksource: Switched to clocksource MIPS
[ 0.165924] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 0.171070] TCP established hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.177762] TCP bind hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.183941] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 1024)
[ 0.190144] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.195745] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.202120] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 0.212435] futex hash table entries: 256 (order: -1, 3072 bytes)
[ 0.218368] Crashlog allocated RAM at address 0x3f00000
[ 0.238616] squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher
[ 0.244273] jffs2: version 2.2 (NAND) (SUMMARY) (LZMA) (RTIME) (CMODE_PRIORIT Y) (c) 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
[ 0.256504] io scheduler noop registered
[ 0.260308] io scheduler deadline registered (default)
[ 0.266140] rt2880-pinmux pinctrl: pin io18 already requested by pinctrl; can not claim for 10005000.pwm
[ 0.275219] rt2880-pinmux pinctrl: pin-18 (10005000.pwm) status -22
[ 0.281229] rt2880-pinmux pinctrl: could not request pin 18 (io18) from group pwm0 on device rt2880-pinmux
[ 0.290632] mtk-pwm 10005000.pwm: Error applying setting, reverse things back
[ 0.297982] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
[ 0.305574] console [ttyS0] disabled
[ 0.309008] 10000c00.uartlite: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x10000c00 (irq = 28, base_baud = 2500000) is a 16550A
[ 0.317786] console [ttyS0] enabled
[ 0.317786] console [ttyS0] enabled
[ 0.324780] bootconsole [early0] disabled
[ 0.324780] bootconsole [early0] disabled
[ 0.333467] 10000d00.uart1: ttyS1 at MMIO 0x10000d00 (irq = 29, base_baud = 2 500000) is a 16550A
[ 0.342990] 10000e00.uart2: ttyS2 at MMIO 0x10000e00 (irq = 30, base_baud = 2 500000) is a 16550A
[ 0.353533] spi-mt7621 10000b00.spi: sys_freq: 193333333
[ 0.363606] m25p80 spi32766.0: using chunked io (size=31)
[ 0.369105] m25p80 spi32766.0: mx25l25635e (32768 Kbytes)
[ 0.374674] 4 ofpart partitions found on MTD device spi32766.0
[ 0.380600] Creating 4 MTD partitions on "spi32766.0":
[ 0.385815] 0x000000000000-0x000000030000 : "u-boot"
[ 0.392653] 0x000000030000-0x000000040000 : "u-boot-env"
[ 0.399935] 0x000000040000-0x000000050000 : "factory"
[ 0.406898] 0x000000050000-0x000002000000 : "firmware"
[ 0.454570] 2 uimage-fw partitions found on MTD device firmware
[ 0.460620] 0x000000050000-0x00000019891d : "kernel"
[ 0.467351] 0x00000019891d-0x000002000000 : "rootfs"
[ 0.474280] mtd: device 5 (rootfs) set to be root filesystem
[ 0.480156] 1 squashfs-split partitions found on MTD device rootfs
[ 0.486438] 0x0000006f0000-0x000002000000 : "rootfs_data"
[ 0.503521] rt3050-esw 10110000.esw: link changed 0x00
[ 0.511255] mtk_soc_eth 10100000.ethernet eth0: mediatek frame engine at 0xb0 100000, irq 5
[ 0.519925] i2c /dev entries driver
[ 0.524039] mt7621_wdt 10000120.watchdog: Initialized
[ 0.529379] MTK MSDC device init.
[ 0.569616] mtk-sd: MediaTek MT6575 MSDC Driver
[ 0.575659] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 0.584270] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 0.588869] bridge: automatic filtering via arp/ip/ip6tables has been depreca ted. Update your scripts to load br_netfilter if you need this.
[ 0.601728] 8021q: 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8
[ 0.608275] mtk-linkit bootstrap: Version :
[ 0.612781] mtk-linkit bootstrap: Revision :
[ 0.619909] squashfs: SQUASHFS error: unable to read id index table
[ 0.626598] jffs2: Flash size not aligned to erasesize, reducing to 31104KiB
[ 0.634176] jffs2: jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): Magic bitmask 0x1985 not found at 0x00000000: 0x7368 instead
[ 0.643825] jffs2: jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): Magic bitmask 0x1985 not found at 0x00000004: 0x0675 instead
[ 0.653444] jffs2: jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): Magic bitmask 0x1985 not found at 0x00000008: 0xf922 instead
[ 0.663061] jffs2: jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): Magic bitmask 0x1985 not found at 0x00000010: 0x0027 instead
[ 0.672678] jffs2: jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): Magic bitmask 0x1985 not found at 0x00000014: 0x0004 instead
[ 0.682293] jffs2: jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): Magic bitmask 0x1985 not found at 0x00000018: 0x06c0 instead
[ 0.691910] jffs2: jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): Magic bitmask 0x1985 not found at 0x0000001c: 0x0004 instead
[ 0.701527] jffs2: jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): Magic bitmask 0x1985 not found at 0x00000020: 0x06bf instead
[ 0.711144] jffs2: jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): Magic bitmask 0x1985 not found at 0x00000028: 0x5367 instead
[ 0.720761] jffs2: jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): Magic bitmask 0x1985 not found at 0x00000030: 0x535f instead
[ 0.730374] jffs2: Further such events for this erase block will not be print ed
[ 0.739652] jffs2: Empty flash at 0x00000038 ends at 0x00000040
[ 0.779031] jffs2: jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): Magic bitmask 0x1985 not found at 0x00010000: 0xaef4 instead
[ 0.788675] jffs2: jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): Magic bitmask 0x1985 not found at 0x00010004: 0x6b49 instead
[ 0.798299] jffs2: jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): Magic bitmask 0x1985 not found at 0x00010008: 0x35a3 instead
[ 0.807916] jffs2: jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): Magic bitmask 0x1985 not found at 0x0001000c: 0x6b6d instead
[ 0.817533] jffs2: jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): Magic bitmask 0x1985 not found at 0x00010010: 0xf93d instead
[ 0.827150] jffs2: jffs2_scan_eraseblock(): Magic bitmask 0x1985 not found at 0x00010014: 0x3105 instead

I have the Power Dock which does not have the serial chip. That was my understanding
from reading all the threads

I have tried several ways of hooking it up. I have the negative, RX- and TX- plugged
in. I get the odd characters for the 10 seconds the amber led is on then nothing
Green leds light and blue led lights

Trying to get to the console but all I get when the amber led lights is pictured!
Any idea what is going on? Thanks

Thank you. I will try your method

When i received my Omega 2 + with dock , the amber led was solid from initial startup.
Made the wifi connection and then proceed with firmware updated. During update the Omega
crashed my Laptop (win10) and now the amber led comes on solid for about 15 seconds and turns off. No longer seen by wifi. Please help