RB450G upgrade failed with ROS 4.1 from 3.30

CarulloS · October 19, 2009, 5:21am

I have only upgraded 2 RB450G routers and one of them worked fine and the other resulted in long night to replace at tower site. After the upgrade, as soon as the RB booted with two beeps and starting services in console window all ethernet lights began to flash on and off at the same time and it stops there non operational and non-responsive.

Only net install back to 3.30 let it operate again. Net install back to 4.1 produced same results as above and did not work. Net install back to 3.30 and its working again. This router will not take a 4.1 load…

I have supout.rif file of it running at 3.30 for support to look at. Just wanted to leave heads-up…

Scott

normis · October 19, 2009, 8:28am

did you follow the instructions in the download page?

update bootloader
update license
FTP files and reboot

?

VProtzai · October 19, 2009, 8:55am

I confirm a problem, have updated with 4.0 on 4.1

normis · October 19, 2009, 9:01am

what problem? did you upgrade or not?

VProtzai · October 19, 2009, 9:16am

450G updated with 4.0 on 4.1
After the upgrade, as soon as the RB booted with two beeps and starting services in console window all ethernet interface blink lights.
Router is accessible only through serial console:

RouterBOOT booter 2.23

RouterBoard 450G

CPU frequency: 680 MHz
Memory size: 256 MB

Press any key within 2 seconds to enter setup..
loading kernel from nand... OK
setting up elf image... OK
jumping to kernel code
Starting...
Starting services...

\

system routerboard print
routerboard: yes
model: "450G"
current-firmware: "2.23"
upgrade-firmware: "2.23"

license print
software-id: "XXXX-XXXX"
upgradable-to: v5.x
nlevel: 5
features:

package print
Flags: X - disabled

NAME VERSION SCHEDULED

0 system 4.1
1 routeros-mipsbe 4.1
2 wireless 4.1
3 routing 4.1
4 hotspot 4.1
5 routerboard 4.1
6 X ipv6 4.1
7 ppp 4.1
8 advanced-tools 4.1
9 dhcp 4.1
10 mpls 4.1
11 security 4.1

P.S. Information from console log:

Bad page state in process 'net'
page:c29d7e20 flags:0x00000000 mapping:00000000 mapcount:1 count:0
Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed

oreggin · October 19, 2009, 10:51am

Where did you get this version of firmware?

normis · October 19, 2009, 10:54am

firmware is distributed along with RouterOS software. if you have routerboard NPK installed, type:

[admin@MikroTik] > system routerboard print 
       routerboard: yes
             model: "750"
     serial-number: "1FC201DD513B"
  current-firmware: "2.22"
  upgrade-firmware: "2.23"

and then

[admin@MikroTik] > system routerboard upgrade

VProtzai · October 19, 2009, 11:22am

Via system routerboard upgrade

oreggin · October 19, 2009, 1:18pm

Ok, janisk was locked my topic:

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=35813

and linked this one but I don’t understand why.
I was opened that topic at wrong place? I’m newby here, so sorry for offtopic
I searched about Netinstall but didn’t found topics/posts about my issue.

normis · October 19, 2009, 1:20pm

it’s because this topic already talks about the same issue, it’s better to keep reports in one place.

we fixed the Netinstall upgrading issue where it’s stuck at “Sending offer”. It will be in next Netinstall version, right now you have to use Netinstall 4.0

http://www.mikrotik.com/download/netinstall-4.0.zip

oreggin · October 19, 2009, 1:57pm

Sorry, maybe I’m too lamer but Netinstall never works for me. Not just the 4.x versions but all.

Maybe LoL, but I found an interactive video on Youtube about howto use Netinstall and I was follow that step-by-step and it was worked there but doesn’t works for me.

I dump the network traffic with Wireshark after router booted the netinstalls kernel and I see the UPD packets witch was sent by the router in every seconds:

src_mac: 00:0c:42:XX:XX:XX
dest_mac: FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
src_ip: 0.0.0.0
dest_ip: 255.255.255.255
src_port: 5000
dest_port: 5000

When I press the “Install button” the Netinstall sends 6 packets:

scr_mac: 00:12:3f:XX:XX:XX
dest_mac: FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
src_ip:192.168.1.15
dest_ip:255.255.255.255
src_port:5000
dest_port:5000

In the previous topic I was wrote that I tried Netinstall version 3.26, 3.27, 3.28, 3.30, 4.0, 4.1 and are didn’t works. All of them hungs for 10 seconds after I clicked “Install” button.
But ok, I waiting for the next release.

CarulloS · October 19, 2009, 2:25pm

Hey Normis,

I sent in supout on this router while running 3.30 before upgrade to 4.1.
Ticket#2009101966000057

Yes, licensed was updated and it has the most recent firmware with 3.30.

As soon as upgrqade through normal winbox means or via netinstall to 4.1 as soon as starting services shows up in console all ethernet lights blink on and off and it needs to be netinstalled back to 3.30 to work.

Thanks,
Scott

VProtzai · October 20, 2009, 5:41am

And silence ,

normis · October 20, 2009, 5:59am

Because it’s night time in Latvia

CarulloS · October 20, 2009, 8:05am

You guys sleep? lol

VProtzai · October 20, 2009, 10:43am

up

normis · October 20, 2009, 10:46am

reinstall RouterOS v4.1 via the 4.0 Netinstall from our site.

VProtzai · October 20, 2009, 10:48am

And how? The network is inaccessible at a router.

VProtzai · October 20, 2009, 11:14am

invalid upgrade file id

normis · October 20, 2009, 11:31am

Please read my suggestion once more. I suggested to use Netinstall 4.0 not 4.1