[MinnowBoard] Booting OpenWrt

[Sam Crawford]

I've just added it to http://elinux.org/Minnowboard:MinnowMaxDistros. I've
effectively cloned the OpenWrt page. I assume there's no copyright issue
with this, as I'm the original author.

Thanks,

Sam


On 29 September 2014 16:58, Darren Hart <dvhart at linux.intel.com> wrote:

> I suggest placing a link to it here:
>
> http://www.elinux.org/Minnowboard:MinnowMaxDistros
>
>
> Also, re EFI, GPT is not required, MSDOS partition is also supported. The
> more critical element is the FAT32 partition. Some support FAT32 partition
> type, others require the EFI type (the FS is the same). Michael's
> documentation looks good to me - thanks for writing it all down!
>
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> From:  Michael Jarvis <mjarvis.tx.08 at gmail.com>
> Reply-To:  MinnowBoard Development and Community Discussion
> <elinux-minnowboard at lists.elinux.org>
> Date:  Monday, September 29, 2014 at 7:50
> To:  MinnowBoard Development and Community Discussion
> <elinux-minnowboard at lists.elinux.org>
> Subject:  Re: [MinnowBoard] Booting OpenWrt
>
>
> >This would be good information to link to (or duplicate) on the
> >Minnowboard Max wiki <http://www.elinux.org/Minnowboard:MinnowMax>, but
> >I'm not exactly sure where it should go in the hierarchy of pages.
> >
> >On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 9:21 AM, Sam Crawford <sam at samknows.com> wrote:
> >
> >I got it working. For anyone else struggling with this in the future,
> >here's my write-up on getting OpenWrt onto the Minnowboard Max:
> >http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/minnowboard/minnowboard-max
> >
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Sam
> >
> >
> >
> >On 26 September 2014 23:27, Sam Crawford <sam at samknows.com> wrote:
> >
> >Thanks John. Can you provide any pointers or links to what's needed to
> >repackage it to make it suitable with UEFI? I've asked around on the
> >OpenWrt IRC channel - UEFI is pretty much unheard of there.
> >Thanks
> >
> >Sam
> >
> >
> >On 26 September 2014 23:18, John Hawley <john.hawley at intel.com> wrote:
> >
> >So the image that OpenWRT has there won't work on the MAX's firmware for
> >two reasons:
> >
> >1) Not a GPT partition table
> >2) No UEFI boot partition
> >
> >Coreboot w/ Seabios would probably boot this, but it may be easier to
> >repackage what's there for UEFI.
> >
> >- John
> >
> >On 09/26/2014 05:26 AM, Sam Crawford wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Has anyone had any joy booting OpenWrt on the Minnowboard Max yet?
> >>
> >> I've tried the naive approach of
> >> flashing
> >>
> https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/x86_64/openwrt-x86_64-combi
> >>ned-ext4.img.gz
> >> (decompressed of course) to a USB stick, but the EFI firmware doesn't
> >> want to boot from it. The EFI shell doesn't even recognise fs0 as a
> >> 'valid mapping' (in EFI-speak I think).
> >>
> >> I suspect EFI is the cause of the pain here, but I'm unfamiliar with
> >> what modifications are required to get it to play nice.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Sam
> >>
> >>
> >
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