[LEDE-DEV] Sysupgrade on Mikrotik RB912

[Felix Fietkau]

On 2017-05-12 12:47, Edwin van Drunen wrote:
> Hello Sergey,
> 
> When using sysupgrade on an RB912 running a full LEDE 17.01.1 to install a custom image made with the image builder, the kernel is installed just fine.
> Before and after the sysupgrade I booted OpenWRT so I could mount the YAFFS kernel partition and could verify that the kernel was updated and other files on the partition were removed (as a test I added a text file before).
> This shows that a partition image is successfully written to mtd5 when executing sysupgrade from a fully installed LEDE.
> 
> So it seems to only be a problem when running sysupgrade from an initramfs image, which would be the way to go for a fresh install.
> I used the following initramfs image:
> https://downloads.lede-project.org/releases/17.01.1/targets/ar71xx/mikrotik/lede-17.01.1-ar71xx-mikrotik-vmlinux-initramfs.elf
> 
> Is there something missing in the default initramfs image?
> Because I have no serial console and the ssh session is broken immediately after starting the sysupgrade, I also cannot see any error messages.
Hi Edwin,

Based on the information you provided, I just found out that nand-utils
is missing in the initramfs image. I've just pushed a fix to master and
the 17.01 branch, so the next build should take care of this issue.

https://git.lede-project.org/c536c50171

- Felix