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dangowrt / owrt-ubi-installer

OpenWrt firmware installer for the Linksys E8450 aka. Belkin RT3200
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Fresh install on a Linksys E8450 settings do not persist after reboot #96

Closed DimitryRakhlei closed 2 years ago

DimitryRakhlei commented 2 years ago

Install seemed to work with no issues but every time I reboot the router it resets most settings except for the password (it still complains about password being unchanged). Is there a simple solution that I am missing in the docs? I have mtd0-3 backed up on my desktop.

dangowrt commented 2 years ago

Does the router indicate to be in initramfs/recovery mode? (warning in LuCI, ubus call system board via SSH shows initramfs as filesystem)

If you, did you follow through with the manual including the final step to flash the sysupgrade image when already running OpenWrt after initially flashing the installer image from stock firmware?

If you did flash the sysupgrade image it can be that something crashes and a log of that crash can then be found in /sys/fs/pstore. To check, connect via SSH and try cat /sys/fs/pstore/*. If that shows a crashlog, share it and delete the files in pstore, so the router resumes to reboot into the production image.

abdoahmed79 commented 2 years ago

Facing the same issue with RT3200,

DimitryRakhlei commented 2 years ago

Solved it by flashing the sysupgrade image again. It must have not succeeded the first time.