[MinnowBoard] Booting OpenWrt

[Sam Crawford]

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-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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