[MinnowBoard] Booting OpenWrt

[John Hawley]

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-combined-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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