Asuswrt-Merlin and RT-N66U

[saabirsa]

Hi all,

I am having a very strange problem with my newly upgraded Asus RT-N66U, running on Merlin's firmware and was wondering if anyone could help.

Previous to my upgrade to 3.0.0.4.374.33_0, I was running 3.0.0.4.374.32_0, and had Entware and Privoxy set up with no problems. However, since the update, both refuse to stay installed after a reboot. They install successfully to /tmp/mnt/sda1, but as soon as I reboot, although the files remain present, running 'opkg list' presents a 'Command Not Found' error.

Consequently, this results in the devices that have been set up to use Privoxy via an IP address in the firewall-start page to not be able to access the internet as neither Privoxy nor Entware are running or enabled. I have tried a number of things, including formatting the USB Device, trying another USB devices, trying alternate file systems and retrying the commands to no avail. The only thing I have not yet attempted is a factory reset, which will be my next port of call.

Would anyone be able to shed some light on this?

Cheers.

 

[joegreat]

Previous to my upgrade to 3.0.0.4.374.33_0, I was running 3.0.0.4.374.32_0, and had Entware and Privoxy set up with no problems. However, since the update, both refuse to stay installed after a reboot. They install successfully to /tmp/mnt/sda1, but as soon as I reboot, although the files remain present, running 'opkg list' presents a 'Command Not Found' error.

Would anyone be able to shed some light on this?

Hi,

Does the /jffs/scripts and /jffs/configs folders survive the reboot?

Some times you need to selct twice the option Format "JFFS partition at next boot = Yes" under "Administration - System" and reboot each time.

Then the /jffs/ filesystem should survive the reboot.
And you can (again) install entware!

With kind regards
Joe

 

[saabirsa]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply. It seems to be working fine now after a factory reset (fingers crossed). If it happens again, I will be sure to try your suggestion.

 

[saintdev]

I noticed after I installed entware and rebooted the router it re assigned my drive. It was sdb when I first plugged it in, and moved to sda after reboot. If you used the entware-setup script it adds a post-mount jffs script that sets up the /tmp/opt symlink when called with the selected drive. If the drive changes names when rebooted (drive detection is not deterministic, so this can happen), the symlink will not get setup correctly.

 

[RMerlin]

I strongly recommend assigning a label to any drive that is used for stuff like Entware/Optware. tune2fs -L will let you assign a label if it's ext2/ext3 formatted (as it should be with Entware/Optware).