Hello,

I'm currently struggling with two similar Microtik routers: RB433L , RB433UAHL.

They are the Lite version of the well-known rb433, with a lower power consomption.

Their amusing property is that the serial port seems present (RX/TX pads) but not initialized at boot, neither by Linux kernel or by the bootloader, which make debugging difficult
(On the TX pad, I just get a suspicious periodic square signal after boot)

I can't get any of them boot an OpenWRT image (trunk of today) using the netboot procedure described here:
http://wp.ayufan.eu/2013/02/the-rb951g-and-openwrt/ (and elsewere).

The router does bootp + tftp procedure.... and seems to ignore the ELF file I give it
(I tried all of
openwrt-ar71xx-mikrotik-vmlinux.elf
openwrt-ar71xx-mikrotik-vmlinux-initramfs.elf
openwrt-ar71xx-mikrotik-vmlinux-initramfs-lzma.elf
openwrt-ar71xx-mikrotik-vmlinux-lzma.elf )

The netboot procedure does work since I could send the microtik's NPK upgrade package and the routeur did flash itself.

Apparently, one person did success in booting a kernel https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=41490 , but no specific details on the file used not the procedure.
I would be very happy to just get to the "kernel boot" point.

Does anyone did play with  this kind of hardware ?

Thanks

OB
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