OpenWRT on Radxa E54C

#1

Has anyone managed to install OpenWRT (not flippy or istoreos) on RADXA E54C?

#2

Yes, but only on Sdcard, not NVME. I am struggling with updating SPI bootloader. Looks like SPI is not visible in Linux.

#3

I thought OpenWRT does not support E54C yet. How did you manage it?

#4

Oh, my bad. I thought that you are talking about Flippy Openwrt (I am fast reader :smile:). OpenWRT from openwrt.org is not supported AFAIK.

#5

You should enable the SPI flash under linux with rsetup, check:

https://docs.radxa.com/en/e/e54c/getting-started/install-os/boot_from_nvme

#6

Thank you, but I was following this guide. Problem is that it’s not up to date. It took me several hours, but finally I was able to boot from NVME.

First of all, spi.img is no longer needed. Second “Enable SPI flash” is not available in Manage Overlays in rsetup utility (I have 2GB RAM version without eMMC, but I dont think that its the reason). And finally, after system image copying to NVME, it is necessary to fix GPT table in fdisk, because without that system was not booting.

And my sdcards was not helping either. I was able to finish system update only after I replaced sdcard, twice :slight_smile: And without system update it is not possible to write SPI bootloader, because SPI device is not visible in /dev in older system version.