There is a little reset button on the side. Pressing it doesn’t do anything
There is a little spot on the board for reset, putting a screw driver of plyer on it doesn’t do anything.
Board doesn’t boot anymore after some power cycles.
Power cycles were needed because with ROS 4.13 the reboot (initiated in either winbox or telnet) did not make the board to reboot. It stalled.
After several power cycles the board became unaccissable both through its wireless interface as the ethernet port.
It does power up and the lights are flashing and the beeps are beeping as normal.
Booting from network
Network boot works similarly to PXE or EtherBoot protocol, and allows you to boot a RouterBOARD 711
series device from an executable image stored on a TFTP server. It uses BOOTP or DHCP (configurable in
boot loader) protocol to get a valid IP address, and TFTP protocol to download an executable (ELF) kernel
image combined with the initial RAM disk (inserted as an ELF section) to boot from (the TFTP server’s IP
address and the image name must be sent by the BOOTP/DHCP server).
To boot the RouterBOARD computer from Ethernet network you need the following:
● An ELF kernel image for the loader to boot from (you can embed the kernel parameters and initrd
image as ELF sections called kernparm and initrd respectively)
● A TFTP server which to download the image from
● A BOOTP/DHCP server (may be installed on the same machine as the TFTP server) to give an IP
address, TFTP server address and boot image name
See the Button Index section on how to configure loader to boot from network.
Note that you must connect the RouterBOARD you want to boot, and the BOOTP/DHCP and TFTP servers to
the same broadcast domain (i.e., there must not be any routers between them).
Button Index
S301 Bootoader reset button. Holding this button during boot time will make RB711 look for
Netinstall servers. Release the button after the LED light goes out.
RESET RouterOS reset jumper hole (RESET, marked with a black circle in the diagram above, below
S301) – resets RouterOS software to defaults. Must short circuit the metallic sides of the hole
(with a screwdriver, for example) and boot the device. Hold screwdriver in place until
RouterOS configuration is cleared.
Press the button you found during bootup with the board connected to a PC running NetInstall in PXE mode, the board will show up and you can transfer over a new image.