[LEDE-DEV] Sysupgrade on Mikrotik RB912

[Sergey Ryazanov]

Hello,

On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 2:35 PM, Felix Fietkau <nbd at nbd.name> wrote:
> 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
>

Wow, good catch! Seem like that this is the real root cause of issue.

I completely missed the fact that initramfs could be built without
using of the nand-utils package, since I always use custom build
images.

-- 
Sergey