So I’m trying to run Linux on my RB450G RouterBoard using Metarouter. I’ve been looking for prebuilt images and the only images I could find is OpenWrt and the latest version I could find is version 12.09 from 2015 (the latest is version 21.02).
So, now I have a few questions. Is running OpenWrt on Metarouter still a thing that people do? Most articles and forum posts I found are old and even the newer ones that I found still only mention this old 12.09 image. And alsogeometry dash lite, Are there prebuilt Linux images for Metarouter? or do I have to build them myself? I have tried building OpenWrt for Metarouter using instructions from the OpenWrt wiki and Mikrotik Wiki. But unfortunately, I have not succeeded.
Metarouter is R.I.P. on RouterOS since many moons ago (at least in reality if not officially). It’s replaced with container functionality … but this functionality is not available on all platforms and if one seriously wants to use it (or wants to seriously use it) one better uses a very decent RB model (with USB port for flash disk or any other means of attaching external storage to store container images and with plenty of RAM, 512MB or more).
RB450G (not x4) fits with SD slot, it mostly fits with 256MB RAM but (very probably) fails with architecture (MMIPS). After all one then has to find container image, built for router’s architecture … Which means that best choice is a router, built on ARM/ARM64 architecture … because there are many container images, available for ARM.
Requirements
Container package is compatible with > arm arm64 and x86 architectures> . Using of remote-image (similar to docker pull) functionality requires a lot of free space in main memory, 16MB SPI flash boards may use pre-build images on USB or other disk media.