Banana Pi BPI-R2 Pro OpenWRT, Ubuntu,Debian Linux image

OpenWrt 21.02.x comes with Kernel 5.4, not 4.19. So I guess this is a custom proprietary firmware partially based on OpenWrt, but not OpenWrt 21.02…? In that case, please also advertise it as “OpenWrt-based firmware” or something like that, because official openwrt.org doesn’t support this board yet and that’s the requirement for using the OpenWrt trademark without permission, see also https://openwrt.org/trademark

frank-w · March 11, 2022, 1:59pm

imho they use this to build. the image:

but i guess they replace kernel from openwrt (if it is 21.04, have not found versioninfo in the repo) with the rockchips vendor-kernel + bpi modifications (in repo /kernel)

dangowrt · March 11, 2022, 2:03pm

Yes, this is based on openwrt-21.02 and it also looks like they are building Linux 5.4 here.

However, even that would only qualify to be called “custom firmware based on OpenWrt” (just like Raspbian is a custom distribution based on Debian).

sinovoip · March 14, 2022, 5:55am

frank-w · March 29, 2022, 2:54pm

debian zip file contains a update.img, i tried “mounting” this with losetup and ran partprobe like i did for other images. it looks like there are no partitions in the image. also fdisk do not see any partition table. can this image directly flashed to an sdcard or do i need to change/add anything? can i only write this image using the rockchip-sdcard-tool?

i found a dd way here similar to the process i already know (idbloader+uboot): http://opensource.rock-chips.com/wiki_Boot_option

but not how to use the update.img…is this only the debian-rootfs? at least i cannot mount it directly

so can you write the image with the tool to get a bootable sdcard and then strip a real image with dd and upload this?

wei.zuo · March 30, 2022, 2:00am

hi Frank-W, after you compiled BPI-R2PRO’s BSP by the script build.sh, you got the file “update.img”, it is image for SD boot. it is one very special vendor’s image. we also don’t know the image partition format. So you can’t use “partprobe” and “mount” utility to access it. you can only flash update.img into SD card by vendor’s special SD burning tool.

frank-w · March 30, 2022, 6:00am

So could you write the update.img above to sdcard with the tool and dd from it to get a real sd-image? As i have no native windows here (only vm where i already tried - tool aborts after writing a small chunk) and other user will have problems too. Except i can only use my (mainline) way and have then no way to compare functionality.

eddo · May 30, 2022, 12:21pm

How to convert openwrt standard image (openwrt-21.02-snapshot-r0-938b4b14d-bananapi-armv8-ext4.img) to update.img ? Is it possible or using build.sh is the only way to generate image?

frank-w · May 30, 2022, 1:29pm

why do you want this propritary format which needs the windows-flash tool?

i guess you want the file which can be used inside openwrt to update only the r/o rootfs?

eddo · May 31, 2022, 1:11am

Yes, I just want to update the r/o rootfs but the sysupgrade giving an error “Firmware upgrade is not implemented for this platform.”

frank-w · May 31, 2022, 5:56am

These are different images…you beed sysupgrade image and in running system a way to install it.

This needs to implemented in source (bpi and maybe mainline too),but i’m not deep enough in openwrt.

kartun83 · July 22, 2022, 6:36pm

Please provide password for openwrt with kernel 5.10. Empty password doesn’t work, “bananapi” either. And it’s not mentioned anywhere on wiki.

andriy.scope · July 25, 2022, 7:20pm

Hi,

Had same problem, snooped around github

Apparently creds are user: root pass: 123456

benj · December 1, 2022, 2:45pm

Are there any valid download links to the debian or ubuntu images? The Google Drive links and the Baidu Links posted above are not working anymore.