RB750G firmware upgrade problem

pech · September 15, 2011, 8:58pm

Hello,
I try upgrade firmware via windows in WinBox and via Terminal but unsuccessfully i have always old version:

system routerboard print
routerboard: yes
model: 750G
serial-number: 228E01AEDC76
current-firmware: 2.23
upgrade-firmware: 2.36

I try method from this forum:

/system routerboard settings set force-backup-booter=no;
/system routerboard upgrade
Do you really want to upgrade firmware? [y/n]
y
firmware upgraded successfully, please reboot for changes to take effect!
system reboot
Reboot, yes? [y/N]:
y

But after reboot i have always old firmware 2.23.

Please help me!

sergejs · September 16, 2011, 7:48am

Check the following option,

/system routerboard settings set force-backup-booter=no

and after this command try to upgrade firmware one more time.

honzam · September 16, 2011, 8:18am

He wrote:

I try method from this forum:

/system routerboard settings set force-backup-booter=no;
/system routerboard upgrade

pech · September 16, 2011, 1:30pm

I try:

/system routerboard settings set force-backup-booter=no 
/system routerboard upgrade

But without success. After reboot i have always:

current-firmware: 2.23
upgrade-firmware: 2.36

tjc · September 17, 2011, 2:06am

You might try going step wise. I just did this last night going from 5.6 with boot loader version 2.29 to 5.7 with version 2.36 without any problems. The big difference seems to that I’d already upgraded from 5.5 to 5.6. No idea why it might make a difference, but it’s certainly worth a shot.

I just uploaded the packages (routeros-mipsbe-5.7.npk combined core, and ntp-5.7-mipsbe.npk optional), rebooted, then after that settled used the webconfig UI to update the firmware and rebooted again when it said to.

pech · September 17, 2011, 2:43pm

OK, firmware was successfully upgraded.

First I downgraded OS to 4.17 there was possible upgrade firmware to 2.29 and after upgrade OS to 5.7, firmware was successfully upgraded to 2.36 .

Thank you for your help!

LeChat · September 19, 2011, 4:10pm

I’ve tried this too, still stuck on 2.23

Le Chat

tjc · September 20, 2011, 1:53am

What packages did you install for 5.7?

normis · September 20, 2011, 6:05am

did you also do:

/system routerboard settings set force-backup-booter=no

LeChat · September 20, 2011, 8:02am

Yes, tried that. Even rolled back to 4.17 and tried an upgrade from there..

Le Chat

tjc · September 20, 2011, 2:50pm

What I’m wondering here is if you might get different results using the combined .npk package versus the separate ones…

janisk · September 21, 2011, 6:29am

should not be the case, as combine package is made out of separate ones, just easier way to upgrade router with one package.

LeChat · September 21, 2011, 7:04am

I’ve only installed

routeros-mipsbe-5.7.npk
ntp-5.7-mipsbe.npk

nickshore · September 21, 2011, 1:06pm

is there any logging which can be enabled to show a routerboot upgrade and/or failure ???

this is where the 750s with no serial can be a real pain.

nickshore · October 5, 2011, 3:09pm

any update on how to fix stuck firmware upgrades ?

normis · October 6, 2011, 5:37am

use the button to load backup bootloader.

nickshore · October 6, 2011, 8:32am

Any chance you could actual explain it so that we can understand it ?

Which button ?

One in winbox ? The reset button ?

Did you read the thread, we have tried all kinds of things as suggested and its still stuck, and won’t upgrade

NIck.

normis · October 6, 2011, 8:45am

which thread? this is your first post in this thread

nickshore · October 6, 2011, 8:49am

The whole thread LeChat is one of our customers.

normis · October 6, 2011, 9:00am

I did not know that.

Type “/system routerboard upgrade” and then make a supout.rif file without rebooting. Send the file to us
Organize remote access to this device, so we can connect and see what’s going on (email support for this, and also attach that file)