31
Jul/081

Asus WL-500g Premium + OpenWRT: Not booting, Failsave possible

I have a Asus WL-500gp with installed OpenWRT since some days. Today I made some modifications to the system and rebooted the router. The router did not came up after reboot. I could not expect any change which could damage the system.

The good news: I could access the failsafe mode as described in the OpenWRT Wiki).

Once I mounted the jffs2 filesystem with the mount_root command some “bus error” messages came up. The message occured on nearly every command I executed.

The binaries in /rom/bin /rom/sbin were executable all the time – they helped me out at some research. For example /rob/bin/df showd me that the disk was not 100% filled.

After some research at google, openwrt forum and openwrt issue tracker I found the solution with the comments in the ticket #607.

Now I can remember: I looked for some upgrades with ipkg upgrade before rebooting the router.

Seems like the problem is caused by a file which was being upgraded and broke … I found a busybox binary in /rom/jffs/bin. Just deleted that file and rebooted the system. Now it works …

Filed under: WL-500gp