New OpenWRT metarouter patch have been released.
*) Added PowerPC support (now you can run OpenWRT image on RB800, R1000 and RB1100)
*) Added support for newer kernel (now it is possible to build image with latest OpenWRT trunk)
Patch downloads and build instructions can be found from link below
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Metarouter#OpenWRT_as_virtual_machine
I had serious problems with running PowerPC image form Wiki and with image built from OpenWRT sources with applied patch. You can read about it in my post → http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/openwrt-on-rb1000-still-in-booting-phase/36006/3 . Be aware!
Where can i download the older one? I would like to use OpenWRT Backfire with older patch. When i used patch 1.2 for backfire svn, i cant get choice MK Metarouter in “make menuconfig”.
Can we get metarouter patch v1.1 again ?
If anybody still have it pls share to us.
Thank you.
Found it
http://www.mikrotik.com/download/metarouter/openwrt-metarouter-1.1.patch
Thank you.
Hello, as I already posted elsewhere:
This fixes a problem where mounting a squashfs loop device inside linux guest would get autodetected as ‘metafs’ instead, wrongly mounting metafs (the mikrotik-shared filesystem) in place of the squashfs contents.
Also note: from that point on, you need to specify the root device explicitly on kernel command line. The only way seems to be via CONFIG_CMDLINE in guest kernel.
Example that works with the liquidcz infrastructure: CONFIG_CMDLINE=“init=/etc/preinit rootfstype=metafs root=none”
Could you please merge this into your official patches? Thank you !
--- old/fs/metafs/inode.c 2012-06-29 16:31:48.331049440 +0200
+++ new/fs/metafs/inode.c 2012-06-29 16:32:31.652047941 +0200
@@ -841,7 +841,6 @@
.name = "metafs",
.get_sb = mfs_get_sb,
.kill_sb = kill_block_super,
- .fs_flags = FS_REQUIRES_DEV,
};
static void init_once(void *foo)
Trying to build latest openwrt with needed packages (8.09 branch), gives me following error: http://pastebin.com/7PeV0jvk
Wiki http://wiki.mikrotik.com Building your own OpenWRT image http://www.mikrotik.com/download/metarouter/openwrt-metarouter-1.2.patch update? …bad file patch (inside the non-existent links)
it is working again. you should be able to download the file from this link:
http://www.mikrotik.com/download/metarouter/openwrt-metarouter-1.2.patch
the file is the same openwrt-metarouter-1.2.patch
command “make” after a while error no download ftp://…kernel…xxx.2.6.31 inside the non-existent links
NathanA > write May 19, 2012 >> “The current version of ‘trunk’ only supports kernels 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3…all support of 2.6.x has been removed from ‘trunk’ by OpenWRT devs …”
tried to compile and it is not possible with latest trunk and patch 1.2 cause it can’t find the linux packages to download from mirrors
latest patch is not for latest trunk. however it should be possible to manually apply it. Others use last revision that had kernel against what 1.2 patch was created.
can you share some tips or have a “how to” so I could apply it manually ? Or what trunk is meant to be used (i guess it will fail even with right trunk as the packages are removed from mirrors)
you can look up tips on internet where more experienced people suggests what exactly should and can be done.
great answer Janisk 
this really adds some shine to this community 
even if i could i cannot you answer off-topic questions that does not regard RouterOS configuration or use of hardware. There are better forums that has already have well laid out answer to your question.
Same way you can find already built images linked in this forum that users have built for others to use.
I got your point. There seems to be “invisible off-topic wall” in every tech forum you hit and always the magical other places where all answers seem to be existing. I’ll try to search better
Please update your wiki page http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Metarouter#Building_your_own_OpenWRT_image which is outdated to indicate the patch provided is outdated for latest trunk that is referenced there. Would save you a lot of “off-topic” n00b questions.
if you really need that, you can see this thread:
http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/metarouter-images/28791/1
where some users did awesome work and made OpenWRT images for MetaROUTER
on later pages they are using newer releases that matched kernel that patch 1.2 was made against.
on 3rd page of that thread you will see posts of liquidcz and NathanA
where they have built images and what version they used.
for example this post:
http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/metarouter-images/28791/123
wiki page has note saying that using latest trunk might have problems while applying the patch.
Thanks for that info , managed to find those threads on my own last night as well.
My goal is to use openwrt as metarouter and mount the samba share on routerboard and share it with dlna pacage of some kind or install a newer samba version and reshare the share to be able to access this with latest os-x. I’ll dig deeper as I managed to get the metarouter working with kamikaze build provided there but still i’m unable to mount smb shares on this even after I have managed to find needed packages for this.
there was problem with linux OS to mount routeros smb share, try nweer RouterOS if possible. At least on 5.22 ROS smb shares are mountable via CLI or fstab entry.