[MinnowBoard] Booting OpenWrt

[Michael Jarvis]

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-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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