On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 23:27 +0800, Robert Chan wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>  
> 
> Honestly, I had already bricked 2 routers (TP-Link 1043ND and 741ND).
> What I did was that I compiled the images from the source, and then
> upload them to the routers.  Sometimes they work.  However, in two of
> the instances, I changed some options, and … bricked the routers (even
> the build and the flashing were all successful).

> I am just wondering, when I try to build the image from the source
> again in the future, should I just cross my finger and  hope that the
> image will work?  Or is there any way to verify the correctness of an
> image before I flash it to the router?

I am not the most experienced person here, but what I've been doing
is to compile the firmware with "ramdisk" option, upload the image to
RAM from bootloader (via serial interface) using tftp, and booting the
image from RAM without flashing it at all. This works nicely for me
and the trial cycle is actually pretty fast.

Esa


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