Hello,

I flashed the firmware of my WRT54GS v. 1.1 with the newest snapshot from wbx (cause of HFSC, see http://openwrt.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1454).

Unfortunately I couldn't reach the router after flashing, also not in failsafe mode. Later on I found out that boot_wait was off, strange cause I had it on. Shortening the pins helped with this problem, now I was able to reach the router on 192.168.1.1

After this I set boot_wait on that I can at least flash other firmwares. Then I tried several firmwares, the latest experimental and the original linksys (to flash from linksys back to openwrt). The original linksys works but no openwrt one. It simply doesn't boot and only after shortening the pins I am able to get into the failsafe mode.

What can I do ?
Do I have to change some settings in failsafe mode to get it running in normal mode ? I erased the nvram to get the default values back but this didn't help, too.

UPDATE:

If I flash the router with the exp release from 28 Mar, it boots without problems. But any later release (23 Apr or latest CVS snapshots) don't boot. However, before all the flashing and revover procedures I had the 28 Mar release installed so after all I am where I started.....

I assume that there are nvram settings that confuse the later releases. Was something changed concerning nvram settings in the later releases ? Do I have to take care of a special update procedure before flashing a newer firmware ?
Did somebody else encounter this problem or a similiar one ?

Sometimes I feel like a magnet for strange problems

René

Yes, I have the same problem. Two WRT54G v2.2 routers, both work with older OpenWRT firmware, neither respond in any way once upgraded to latest image.

I've been reading looking for a solution to this.. It's nice to know I'm not the only one!

I was able to get the 04/23 experimental runnning. I flashed it, went into failsafe mode and started firstboot manually. After this procedure it booted without problems. But the latest snapshot still doesn't work.......

René

Same to me. Everytime I flash it I have to enter in "failsafe mode" and exec "firstboot". Once done everything worls as expected.

@acitbits:

Did you flash the latest CVS snapshot(s) ?

I can't even get into "failsafe mode". I have to short 15/16 to reflash an older image.  Guess I'll have to wire a serial port to one of these to find out what's happening!

At the risk of being a "me too" sayer - Me Too.

To get the April 23rd snapshot of openwrt-generic-squashfs to work I need to run failsafe mode then login and run firstboot.  I'm using a WRT54G v2.0.  I also had do the same for a WRT54GS v1.0.  I am not using the "boot wait" TFTP method, I'm using the "mtd write" method to flash the new firmware. (I am using the .trx binaries).