Trouble upgrading AVILA boards from v5.00 to v5.01 and up

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If you have problems, when upgrading AVILA board with v5.00 version of WILI software to the newest firmware version (v5.01 and up), please check via SSH, what partition names are created:

# cat /proc/mtd
dev: size erasesize name
mtd0: 00080000 00020000 "RedBoot"
mtd1: 00100000 00020000 "zimage"
mtd2: 00500000 00020000 "ramdisk"
mtd3: 00080000 00020000 "cfg"
mtd4: 008e0000 00020000 "etc"
mtd5: 00020000 00020000 "FIS and config"
mtd6: 0001f000 00020000 "FIS directory"
mtd7: 00001000 00020000 "RedBoot config"

If you see, the same output, then you have the same problem.

Originally this problem was in AVILA v5.00 Install Guide step 11. Partition name should be zImage not zimage.

How to solve this problem

1. Connect to device via SSH or console.

2. Start system shell

3. Go to writable directory:

# cd /tmp

4. Download redboot partition renaming utility (use with care only with AVILA boards)

# wget ftp://wilibox.com/tools/rb-fix
Connecting to wilibox.com[195.14.175.138]:21
rb-fix               100% |*****************************| 30703       00:00 ETA

5. Make rb-fix utility executable

# chmod +x rb-fix

6. Run rb-fix utility in parameters partitiohttp://www.wiligear.com/wiki/ns names. (existing partition name, and what partition name should be)

# ./rb-fix zimage zImage
[17179745.164000] IXP4XX-Flash.0: block unlock error: (status timeout) 
unlock failed!(-1)
renaming partition 'zImage' to 'zimage'

7. Reboot device

# reboot

8. Upgrade your AVILA device to new WILI-MESH v5.01 firmware

Please download fixed AVILA installation guide from wili_avila_ig.pdf and use it for fresh device installation.