Can no longer boot from external storage after update to OpenWRT18

Shane Neighbors

Well I got it to work doing a little hack. Here is what I had to do:

Installed new firmware 0.3.2 b217 -> oupgrade -latest
Copied the overlay folder per the instruction found here onto my SD Card
Created my /etc/config/fstab file and made necessary changes per link here.
Rebooted - no love as I mentioned. So onto the hack...
Downloaded the prior build b202 and installed it via my USB using the Expansion Dock and Putty per instruction here. You may be able to do the firmware update using ssh but I had already had the system setup for unbricking my processor from earlier so I stuck with it.
Rebooted
Created my /etc/config/fstab again using block > /etc/config/fstab and made the necessary changes per link here.
Rebooted NOTE: I did not copy back over the overlays folder as that would have put the older firmware onto the SD Card.
upon reboot I have my 116.GB Card with 110GB of space WOOT!

Now time to play with Node and SQLite... Enjoy

György Farkas

@Shane-Neighbors Run this command please:
ubus call system board

Shane Neighbors

@György-Farkas said in Can no longer boot from external storage after update to OpenWRT18:

ubus call system board

Yeah it as I suspected after trying to install the underlying system still is not updated as it would not allow me to install packages that are part of the 18.06 Snapshot. I kept getting "Signature check failed". So back to square one....
{
"kernel": "4.4.74",
"hostname": "Omega-XXXX",
"system": "MediaTek MT7688 ver:1 eco:2",
"model": "Onion Omega2+",
"board_name": "omega2p",
"release": {
"distribution": "LEDE",
"version": "17.01-SNAPSHOT",
"revision": "r3529-8d3b49a",
"codename": "reboot",
"target": "ramips/mt7688",
"description": "LEDE Reboot 17.01-SNAPSHOT r3529-8d3b49a"
}
}

Shane Neighbors

To add to that I was able to download the packages from the links inside the /etc/opkg/distfeeds.conf for what I needed (the ipk files) and just run them from the command line using opkg install <packagename> and if they need additional packages you will get an error. I was able to get sqlite3 running along with Node and npm so I'm happy for now will see what other issues popup.

Douglas Kryder

so openwrt 18.06 is actually lede 17.01 snapshot? i guess it is some marketing mumbo jumbo.

György Farkas

@Douglas-Kryder said in Can no longer boot from external storage after update to OpenWRT18:

so openwrt 18.06 is actually lede 17.01 snapshot? i guess it is some marketing mumbo jumbo.

No.
HW Omega2+ FW OpenWrt 18.06 based omega2p-v0.3.2-b217


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root@Omega-5BE1:/# ubus call system board
{
	"kernel": "4.14.81",
	"hostname": "Omega-5BE1",
	"system": "MediaTek MT7688 ver:1 eco:2",
	"model": "Onion Omega2+",
	"board_name": "omega2p",
	"release": {
		"distribution": "OpenWrt",
		"version": "18.06-SNAPSHOT",
		"revision": "r0+7437-d624ea1daf",
		"target": "ramips\/mt76x8",
		"description": "OpenWrt 18.06-SNAPSHOT r0+7437-d624ea1daf"
	}
}

root@Omega-5BE1:/# onion os version
=== Version Info ===
Omega firmware: v0.3.2 b217
onion-os - 1.0.6-1

root@Omega-5BE1:/# uname -a
Linux Omega-5BE1 4.14.81 #0 Thu Feb 21 20:59:23 2019 mips GNU/Linux

It seems it is not yet fully perfect. It's rather a release candidate.

Shane Neighbors

@Douglas-Kryder - No it is my hack to make it recognize my SSD card as I need the space to play with NodeJS and SQLite which would not all fit on the base system. So my system is running the 17.02 lede snapshot under the covers and my ssd has the 18.02 overlays installed so I can access those tools.

Again just a hack till someone way smarter than me figures out how to get the 18.06 base system to boot from external devices.

Douglas Kryder

ok, thanks @György-Farkas & @Shane-Neighbors for the explanations. i initially could not figure out the ubus call system board output. thanks.

Thomas McCarthy

@Thomas-McCarthy said in Can no longer boot from external storage after update to OpenWRT18:

Anyone know if there will be an update to let us boot from an external device with OpenWRT18?

Jeff Seese

I have several Omega2S+ on OpenWRT 18, Omegea-ware 0.3.2 b218 booting from external storage using exactly this set of commands.

opkg update
opkg install kmod-usb-storage-extras e2fsprogs kmod-fs-ext4 block-mount

umount /tmp/mounts/SD-P1
echo -e "y" | (mkfs.ext4 /dev/mmcblk0p1)

mkdir /mnt/mmcblk0p1
mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt/mmcblk0p1
block detect > /etc/config/fstab
uci set fstab.@mount[0].target=/overlay
uci set fstab.@mount[0].enabled=1
uci commit
mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt/ ; tar -C /overlay -cvf - . | tar -C /mnt/ -xf - ; umount /mnt/

then

reboot now & exit

log back in and check

df -h.

Thomas McCarthy

@Jeff-Seese Thank you, I will try that!

Bryan French

@Jeff-Seese I tried that but I don't have the /tmp/mounts folder after upgrading to 3.2 b218? I seem to get it to work without the first umount. But now I can't set up a swap page on the overlay. Any suggestions?

Jeff Seese

Just to verify you are able to reboot after these steps and see a larger overlay with df -h?

What is the command you are using to try and set up you swap file?