Jerry Loh
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So I bought a UART serial cable and I watch the console and it doesn't boot up when serial is connected. Quite a newbie in this, hope anyone can guide me. Thanksss
@vaboro @Tech9 @ColinTaylor
Can't get Asus Firmware Restoration Utility to work although it's in rescue mode already. 192.168.1.1 also shows nothing (don't have CFEminiServer).
Let me know if y'all need more stuff/troubleshooting steps. Once again thank you and I am appreciate for any help!
@vaboro @Tech9 @ColinTaylor
Weird Behavior of my AC86U
So, I am using my AC86U for years now as an AiMesh node. Until recently it started to do something weird. My problem is the router keeps bootlooping/restarting. With some playing around, I tried to use the firmware restoration tool, updating to the latest firmware and of course, WPS reset. I...
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Code:
CFE> help
Available commands:
otpcfg Reading/fusing potp/sotp bits
x Change extra partitions size
find Find string in NAND
comp Compare NAND blocks
fb Find NAND bad blocks
dn Dump NAND contents along with spare area
phy Set memory or registers.
meminfo Display CFE System Memory
kernp Updates extra bootloader parameter for kernel. To end input enter // consecutively at any time then press <enter>
sm Set memory or registers.
db Dump bytes.
dh Dump half-words.
dw Dump words.
w Write the whole image start from beginning of the flash
e Erase NAND flash
wp Write pmc (previously loaded through JTAG to flash block 0.
ws Write whole image (priviously loaded by kermit or JTAG) to flash .
ldt load device tree blob from tftp server.
go goto and execute from specefic address.
loadb load binary via network or kermit protocol.
r Run program from flash image or from host depending on [f/h/c] flags
p Print boot line and board parameter info
c Change booline parameters
i Erase persistent storage data
avs Change AVS config
ddr Change board DDR config
a Change board AFE ID
b Change board parameters
reset Reset the board
reboot
pmdio Pseudo MDIO access for external switches.
spi Legacy SPI access of external switch.
pmc pmc cmd
closeavs pmc close avs cmd
cpufreq set CPU frequency
force override chipid check for images.
help Obtain help for CFE commands
For more information about a command, enter 'help command-name'
*** command status = 0
Code:
CFE> fb
>>>>>>>> FIND BAD BLOCKS from block 0 to block 0x7ff <<<<<<<<
Block 0x2f9 is marked bad
*** command status = 0
Can't get Asus Firmware Restoration Utility to work although it's in rescue mode already. 192.168.1.1 also shows nothing (don't have CFEminiServer).
Let me know if y'all need more stuff/troubleshooting steps. Once again thank you and I am appreciate for any help!