patrikg
December 5, 2025, 11:19am
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Do you like me, trying out a another firmware like OpenWRT and had to switch the RouterBoot from bootp to dhcp ?
This repeted messages reminds me of that.
And how to get the RoterBoot netinstall image, has being evolved to mutch easier method see how it's done with the netinstall python method in this page:
Maybe the previous user have switched the NetBoot RouterBoot code from bootp to dhcp, like i did when trying to install OpenWRT to my RB750GL.
I figured out how to switched that settings back with some Linux utils and to get netinstall-cli to reinstall my original firmware.
But how to do it you have to have some Linux knowledge.
Here are my old thread how I did it.
And there are a new way of extracting the the device netinstall code from the netinstall64.exe see this github repo:
This is how I solved this:
Am getting.
[patrik@hp-arch-new Mikrotik]$ sudo ./netinstall-cli -r -k Y7SR-Z6EA.key -a 192.168.1.100 routeros-mipsbe-6.49.7.npk
Version: 7.8(2023-02-24 09:43:52)
Will reset config
Interface Mask: 255.255.255.0
Using Client IP: 192.168.1.100
Using Server IP: 192.168.1.10
Starting PXE server
Waiting for RouterBOARD...
client: 00:0C:42:A3:4A:B6
client: 00:0C:42:A3:4A:B6
client: 00:0C:42:A3:4A:B6
client: 00:0C:42:A3:4A:B6
Repeating lines....
[patrik@hp-arch-new Mikrotik]$ sudo ./netinstall-cli …
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