Using HDD drive for Root on OpenWRT

[hmantsao]

I have gotten dnsmasq going on the br-lan bridge, this seems to work fine (in that it assigns IP addresses) If I add eth0.1 to that bridge, packets get forwarded straight across to my adsl modem, as if the wl-700ge were invisible (I can no longer ping 192.168.1.1 in that situation)

It may be a case of using iptables to forward packets, although I am not sure - I don't think the original asus firmware did this...

Could you please let me know how to connect ADSL modem? That show me don't have pppoe interface and i can't go back asus original firmware . It is very bad

[MoD]

does anybody have an idea? at some point I cant mount HDD anymore. I reflashed the router, recreated partition. even changed the HDD to another one. nothing helps. the error is:

root@OpenWrt:/# mount -t ext3 /dev/discs/disc0/part1 /mnt
mount: mounting /dev/discs/disc0/part1 on /mnt failed

system is the following:

root@OpenWrt:/# lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
ide-disk 16708 0
ext3 72804 0
jbd 54840 0 [ext3]
aec62xx 6940 1
ide-core 123936 0 [ide-disk aec62xx]
switch-robo 4620 0 (unused)
switch-core 4864 0 [switch-robo]
diag 21920 0 (unused)

root@OpenWrt:/# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc: 6448 MB, 6448619520 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 784 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks
Id System
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 1 100 803218+ 83 Linux

root@OpenWrt:/# df
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
none 31464 8 31456 0% /tmp
/dev/mtdblock/4 384 324 60 84% /jffs
/jffs 896 896 0 100% /

root@OpenWrt:/# mount
/dev/root on /rom type squashfs (ro)
none on /dev type devfs (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /tmp type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/mtdblock/4 on /jffs type jffs2 (rw)
/jffs on / type mini_fo (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)

root@OpenWrt:/# ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 483 Jan 23 2007 bin
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 dev
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jan 1 00:00 etc
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jan 1 00:01 jffs
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 409 Jan 23 2007 lib
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jan 1 00:02 mnt
dr-xr-xr-x 29 root root 0 Jan 1 00:00 proc
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 136 Jan 23 2007 rom
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 319 Jan 23 2007 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 3 Jan 23 2007 sys
drwxrwxrwt 6 root root 140 Jan 1 00:00 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 56 Jan 23 2007 usr
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jan 23 2007 var -> /tmp
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 3 Jan 23 2007 www

[back2basic]

does anybody have an idea? at some point I cant mount HDD anymore. I reflashed the router, recreated partition. even changed the HDD to another one. nothing helps. the error is:



system is the following:

you're mount path isn't right it must be set to /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc

[MoD]

you're mount path isn't right it must be set to /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc

the same error also, fdisk works with /dev/discs/disc0/disc

[d3viant]

Could you please let me know how to connect ADSL modem? That show me don't have pppoe interface and i can't go back asus original firmware . It is very bad

It depends on how your router works I guess - mine hands out dhcp addresses, and there is a dhcp client that runs on the WAN port by default with openWRT. If that isnt the case for your router, then you can assign a static IP to eth0.1 in the /etc/config filesystem (around there somewhere I think)

[d3viant]

the same error also, fdisk works with /dev/discs/disc0/disc

My mount command is

mount -t ext3 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /mnt

this should definitely work for you looking at your fdisk output (unless the /mnt directory doesn't exist or the filesystem on the drive is corrupted - do an fsck on the drive device if that mount command doesn't work...)

[MoD]

My mount command is

mount -t ext3 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /mnt

this should definitely work for you looking at your fdisk output (unless the /mnt directory doesn't exist or the filesystem on the drive is corrupted - do an fsck on the drive device if that mount command doesn't work...)

strange situation:

root@OpenWrt:/# mount -t ext3 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /mnt
mount: mounting /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 on /mnt failed
root@OpenWrt:/# mkdir /mnt/test
mini_fo: create_sto_dir: ERROR creating sto dir.
mkdir: cannot create directory '/mnt/test': No space left on device
root@OpenWrt:/# df
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
none 31464 8 31456 0% /tmp
/dev/mtdblock/4 384 324 60 84% /jffs
/jffs 896 896 0 100% /

[d3viant]

Hmm, odd - it's booted off jffs and somehow filled up that small partition (ie no room left to create a /mnt directory)

Is there anything you can delete off jffs to create some more room?

[MoD]

Hmm, odd - it's booted off jffs and somehow filled up that small partition (ie no room left to create a /mnt directory)

Is there anything you can delete off jffs to create some more room?

trying to go back to the original asus firmare shows:

pivot_rc starting...
pivot_rc proceeding to boocramfs: wrong magic
t from disk...
ERROR(a):mount_pivot_point failed to mount location : /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part1...
ERROR(b):mount_pivot_point error : Invalid argument...
pivot_rc boot loop error for location 0...
pivot_rc complete -> calling /sbin/init...

or

pivot_rc starting...
pivot_rc pcramfs: wrong magic
roceeding to boot from disk...
ERROR(a):mount_pivot_point failed to mount location : /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target
0/lun0/part1...
ERROR(b):mount_pivot_point error : Invalid argument...
pivot_rc boot loop error for location 0...
pivot_rc complete -> calling /sbin/init...

could it be that the flash ir physicallly broken?

[d3viant]

It seems to be very confused about where the hard drive actually is - you said you have tried openWRT on a different hard drive from the original one. Does the original still contain the ASUS formatted reiserfs partition - if so, try plugging that back in and see what the ASUS firmware says...

[MoD]

It seems to be very confused about where the hard drive actually is - you said you have tried openWRT on a different hard drive from the original one. Does the original still contain the ASUS formatted reiserfs partition - if so, try plugging that back in and see what the ASUS firmware says...

my previous post is about asus firmware with original HDD.

[d3viant]

That doesn't look so good then! - try plugging your had drive into a pc and formatting it to reiserfs (or the openWRT one to ext3) then try to use the appropriate firmware again.

I hope this'll solve it - otherwise it looks like you may have screwed up your flash ROM...

[MoD]

That doesn't look so good then! - try plugging your had drive into a pc and formatting it to reiserfs (or the openWRT one to ext3) then try to use the appropriate firmware again.

I hope this'll solve it - otherwise it looks like you may have screwed up your flash ROM...

i have tried 3 HDD:
1. original asus
2. Openwrt HDD that was inside the router when everything went wrong
3. another HDD with Openwrt

I have recreated ext3 partition several times. even created fat32 on pc and then back to ext3. nothing helps. so it seems that it is flash, not hdd related problem.

[d3viant]

Well, that isn't so good for you then - the only other thing I can think of is to do a few firmware flashes to see if you can clear out the flash memory - you can do openWRT over serial port too I believe(as opposed to just tftp)

On a seperate note, I got the openWRT to work properly as a router - it seems that turning on the firewall just enables this feature - no extra config required!

Any extra configuration you need to do will be for individual ports that need to get to the router I guess...

[MoD]

Well, that isn't so good for you then - the only other thing I can think of is to do a few firmware flashes to see if you can clear out the flash memory - you can do openWRT over serial port too I believe(as opposed to just tftp)

I have serial port. do you have any idea how to use serial to reinicialize flash or aother stuff that could help. is there any tool that could test the flash?