[LEDE-DEV] 17.01.4 on Mikrotik RB951Ui-2HnD

[Alberto Bursi]

On 03/11/2017 08:04, Nishant Sharma wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am not able to find the documentation to install Lede 17.01.x on 
> RB951Ui-2HnD.
>
> I used to install OpenWrt 15.05 using TFTP boot, mtd erase and 
> unpacking the tar.gz of the rootfs to mtdblock2 and copying the kernel 
> to mtdblock1.
>
> But with Lede 17.01.4, there is no tar.gz. I tried doing:
>
> mtd write rootfs.squashfs rootfs
>
> and copy the kernel to mtdblock1
>
> The device has since then gone into a boot loop. I searched on the 
> forum as well, but couldn't find a solution.
>
> Any pointers for the same would be helpful.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Nishant
>
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>

That target has the "ramdisk" feature enabled by default, so one of the 
files generated by a default compile can be sent over tftp, and then 
booted from RAM
The system may lack Luci but will have SSH and after connecting to it 
you can do a sysupgrade through the commandline, which will write the 
firmware on flash.

Try the ones with "initramfs" in the name, I suspect the right one is 
the "vmlinux-initramfs.bin" or the .elf.

I've seen a thread in the forum too, (with no answer) so if you confirm 
it works either post there or report back here and I'll post the same 
instructions there too.
https://forum.lede-project.org/t/installing-on-mikrotik-rb951ui-2hnd/3751

-Alberto