Unable to install ENTWARE - R9000

[BritinMA]

Good day,

I have followed instructions, but must be misunderstanding something; I have tried 2 different ways:

Method One:

USB Drive, formatted ext4, labelled 'optware", extracted entware-cortex-a15-3x-initial-generic to flash drive.

ls -lash optware/
total 28K
4.0K drwxr-xr-x  4 steve steve 4.0K Oct 28 12:17 .
4.0K drwxr-x---+ 3 steve steve 4.0K Oct 28 14:31 ..
4.0K drwxr-xr-x  4 steve steve 4.0K Oct 28 12:17 entware-cortex-a15-3x-initial-generic
 16K drwx------  2 steve steve  16K Oct 27 16:55 lost+found

Insert to router, reboot, it does not mount at all.

root@R9000:/dev$ mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
/dev/root on /rom type squashfs (ro,relatime)
devtmpfs on /rom/dev type devtmpfs (rw,relatime,size=515196k,nr_inodes=128799,mode=755)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=0k)
tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,relatime,size=512k,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,mode=600)
none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,relatime)
ubi0:overlay_volume on /overlay type ubifs (rw,relatime)
ubi1:plexmediaserver on /tmp/plexmediaserver type ubifs (rw,relatime)
overlayfs:/overlay on / type overlayfs (rw,relatime,lowerdir=/,upperdir=/overlay)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,relatime)
pstore on /tmp/ramoops/pstore type pstore (rw,relatime)
root@R9000:/dev$ uptime
 14:32:41 up 5 min, load average: 0.25, 0.24, 0.11

Method Two:

USB Drive, formatted ext4, labelled 'optware", extracted everything within "entware" directory within entware-cortex-a15-3x-initial-generic to flash drive.

ls -lash optware/
total 48K
4.0K drwxr-xr-x 12 steve steve 4.0K Oct 15 04:14 .
4.0K drwxr-xr-x  4 steve steve 4.0K Oct 28 12:17 ..
4.0K drwxr-xr-x  2 steve steve 4.0K Oct 17 05:26 bin
4.0K drwxr-xr-x  5 steve steve 4.0K Oct 17 05:26 etc
4.0K drwxr-xr-x  2 steve steve 4.0K Oct 15 04:14 home
4.0K drwxr-xr-x  3 steve steve 4.0K Oct 17 05:26 lib
4.0K drwxr-xr-x  2 steve steve 4.0K Oct 17 05:26 root
4.0K drwxr-xr-x  2 steve steve 4.0K Oct 17 05:26 sbin
4.0K drwxr-xr-x  4 steve steve 4.0K Oct 15 04:14 share
4.0K drwxrwxrwx  3 steve steve 4.0K Oct 17 05:27 tmp
4.0K drwxr-xr-x  4 steve steve 4.0K Oct 15 04:14 usr
4.0K drwxr-xr-x  6 steve steve 4.0K Oct 17 05:26 var

Insert into router, reboot, nothing again.

Also tried to mount manually:

root@R9000:/tmp/mnt$ ls -lash
   0 drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root          100 Oct 28 14:43 .
   0 drwxrwxrwt   35 root     root         3.1k Oct 28 14:43 ..
   0 lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            4 Oct 28 14:27 optware -> sdg1
   0 drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root           40 Oct 28 14:27 sdg1
   0 drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root           40 Oct 28 14:43 test
root@R9000:/tmp/mnt$ mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/test/
mount: mounting /dev/sda1 on /mnt/test/ failed

What did I misunderstand from the readme doc?

BTW - no idea what the sdg1 is, or why optware is linked to it.

Thanks for any advice!

 

[KW.]

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[Voxel]

Typing on my phone, so sorry if misprints.
Both methods are wrong. You should neither extract entware-cortex-a15-3x-initial-generic (?) from original entware-cortex-a15-3x-initial-generic.tar.gz nor do selective extraction from this tarball like everything from directory entware to the root of your USB.
Just extract everything from entware-cortex-a15-3x-initial-generic.tar.gz to the root of your USB

cd /mnt/optware
tar xf /fullpath-to/entware-cortex-a15-3x-initial-generic.tar.gz

where fullpath-to is full path to directory where this tar.gz is placed.

You should see three dirs in ‘ls -al /mnt/optware’ command:

autorun
entware
lost+found

Voxel.

 

[BritinMA]

Voxel, I always appreciate when you respond - thank you.

I did exactly as you said - the other issue I mentioned is that the router is not mounting on reboot - and this is still the same.

root@R9000:~$ ls -lash /dev/sd*
   0 brw-r--r--    1 root     root       8,   0 Sep  2 11:51 /dev/sda
   0 brw-r--r--    1 root     root       8,   1 Sep  2 11:51 /dev/sda1
root@R9000:~$ mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/optware/
mount: mounting /dev/sda1 on /mnt/optware/ failed
root@R9000:~$ mount -t ext4 /dev/sda1 /mnt/optware/
mount: mounting /dev/sda1 on /mnt/optware/ failed
root@R9000:~$

I tried multiple USB drives, using ms-dos partition table on one, and gtp on the other; formatted to ext-4 and when that didn't work, I tried ext-3.

and this also is curious as there is no sdf/sdf1:

root@R9000:/tmp/mnt$ ls -lash
   0 drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root           80 Sep  2 11:51 .
   0 drwxrwxrwt   36 root     root         3.4k Oct 28 17:28 ..
   0 lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            4 Sep  2 11:51 optware -> sdf1
   0 drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root           40 Sep  2 11:51 sdf1
root@R9000:/tmp/mnt$

Any ideas?

 

[Voxel]

I did exactly as you said - the other issue I mentioned is that the router is not mounting on reboot - and this is still the same.

Try to do the following:

1. Use MBR USB disk, not GPT (I am not sure that this firmware supports GPT). Maybe try to do initial expariments with rather small USB flash drive, 4-8GB or so.

2. Format it as ext4:

mkfs.ext4 -L optware -O ^64bit /dev/sda1

3. Run this command after formatting as ext4:

tune2fs -O ^metadata_csum /dev/sda1

4. Run the following commands:

mkdir /mnt/myusb
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/myusb
cd /mnt/myusb
ls -al
wget https://www.voxel-firmware.com/Downloads/Voxel/Entware/entware-cortex-a15-3x-initial-generic.tar.gz
tar xf entware-cortex-a15-3x-initial-generic.tar.gz
ls -al
reboot

And publish the output of these commands. Check after reboot that Entware and disk are OK.

Voxel.