Using USB Storage as Rootfs (extroot) - works only for ext4

Vitalii Topoliuk · 6 Jan 2016, 17:16

Documentation sais you can use any of kmod-fs-*, but it's not true. You can use only ext4 as it is installed initially if you will try install any other FS you will see error

 satisfy_dependencies_for: Cannot satisfy the following dependencies for kmod-fs-hfs:

 kernel (= 3.18.20-1-7bed08fa9c06eb8089e82c200340ec66)

 opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package kmod-fs-hfs.

And formating partition as ext4 is tricky when you are on OS X.

Boken Lin · 12 Jan 2016, 00:50

Hi @Vitalii-Topoliuk, can you try downloading the following file and installing with opkg: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/onion-downloads/openwrt/kmod-fs-hfs_3.18.23-1_ar71xx.ipk.

Vitalii Topoliuk · 12 Jan 2016, 23:36

@Boken-Lin said:

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/onion-downloads/openwrt/kmod-fs-hfs_3.18.23-1_ar71xx.ipk

Exactly the same problem

root@Omega-09BD:/tmp# opkg install kmod-fs-hfs_3.18.23-1_ar71xx.ipk
Installing kmod-fs-hfs (3.18.23-1) to root...
Collected errors:

satisfy_dependencies_for: Cannot satisfy the following dependencies for kmod-fs-hfs:
kernel (= 3.18.23-1-e0e84d5fbc36a1efeaeb8472e8c738c9) *
opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package kmod-fs-hfs.

Boken Lin · 13 Jan 2016, 15:24

Hi @Vitalii-Topoliuk The kernel should be the same, ca you try opkg again with the -force-depends flag?