Pixiecore was on my TODO list because those days hardware, datacenters automation are taking a good part of my daily working activity. So I am sure you will read more about it in future articles. I didn’t use it yet because I have to relocate it to my new house. I was able to reach the administrative Web UI. I can use traditional tools like dd to write OpenWRT directly to disk, manipulate partitions and, so on… I followed the blog post “OpenWRT installation instructions for APU2/APU3/APU4 boards” written by TekLager. You can even flash it to TP-LINK or Netgear devices if supported, at your own risk.Īnyway, since I am now running Alpine in memory on my APU4d I have a functional operating system and access to the device.
Install Openwrt On X86 Pc install#
Everything is working and from the serial port I see Alpine booting, the root password is root! Classy! Time to install OpenWRT vmlinuz-vanilla initramfs-vanilla -cmdline='console=ttyS0,115200n8 ssh_key= alpine_repo= modloop=' It is a Go binary, you can run it as a Docker container or, you can compile it with go build but I decided to use Nix shell: Get what you needįirst of all, I installed Pixiecore. But you know how much I like simple tools. If all of this sounds unreasonable, you need to remember that most likely you are right. Luckily for me, the APU4d supports PXE booting, and we know how cool it is, perfect opportunity to try pixiecore and have some fun with netbooting. The best you can do is to trick the system. No matter how big the box with all my cables and dongles is, I will never own the one I need.
Install Openwrt On X86 Pc how to#
It was too late when I realized I don’t know how to flash an mSATA SSD because I don’t have proper cabling… I have also got the 16GB mSata SSD module because you never know, having a 16GB SSD, 4GB of RAM router sounds like an opportunity to run more tools on it! With a serial-USB cable and a Huawei Lte miniPCI chip. I got it directly from the manufacturer PC Engine. A specialized for networking hardware with AMD Embedded G series GX-412TC, widely used for routers.
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I am too lazy to buy a cable or another adapter.