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The upgrade will probably work fine, if you force it (-F), but I can't guarantee it.
If it goes bad you would need a serial device to recover it.

I have no way of testing it for you.

RomanHK wrote:As you can see, the place in /tmp is - if it wasn't, you probably had multiple images with different names in the directory.

I temporarily put in place for you.
1. Restart the router to make space in the /tmp directory
2. Connect to the Internet with a router
3. Execute commands via ssh as follows (I recommend using PuTTY):

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wget http://84.42.176.50/image.bin -O /tmp/image.bin
sysupgrade -n -v /tmp/image.bin

If everything went well, the router should reboot with the new version (1.11.X) - if it failed, write the output here.

Wow, thanks! I did this and got the same message I got before (alas):
Invalid image type.
Image check 'platform_check_image' failed.

I may try to force it, but may wait until tomorrow. Anyone know what that message means?

Thanks for all the help.

Lantis wrote:The upgrade will probably work fine, if you force it (-F), but I can't guarantee it.
If it goes bad you would need a serial device to recover it.

I have no way of testing it for you.

I understand. I think I'm going to try it tomorrow.

If it does go bad, are there instructions somewhere for me to try a different approach / recover it?

Thanks!

Lantis wrote:The upgrade will probably work fine, if you force it (-F), but I can't guarantee it.
If it goes bad you would need a serial device to recover it.

I have no way of testing it for you.

So... I tried to force the upgrade. And it did not work, alas. I can not reach the gargoyle router and when I boot it up its lights go from 1 to 2 to 3 in regular pattern. I assume it is now dead.

Is there a way I can install the newest version directly now? Any other suggestions?

Thanks for all the help (definitely been a learning experience for me).

If it goes bad you would need a serial device to recover it.

Your deep in the rabbit hole now

You have Gargoyle Pocket Router (v2) (Alfa Hornet-UB x2)

https://openwrt.org/toh/alfa_network/hornet-ub

In summary you need to purchase a serial dongle

https://www.ebay.com/itm/FTDI-chip-usb- ... 3812961998

Then open up your router and plug it in

What upgrade command did you run? If you didn't pass the -n flag it may have configured a bad network in which case failsafe might still work.

Failsafe is worth trying before serial.

I do not know, but this message 'platform_check_image' failed is of great concern to me. In my opinion, it will be the incompatibility of Chaos Calmer (Gargoyle 1.10.0) with the new LEDE platform (Gargoyle 1.11.X). I don't know if it shouldn't have done a full reflash (... squashfs-factory.bin) - but this image is not part of the new platform and I have no idea if it even works.

Anyway (although it is unintentional ) we have feedback that this way (sysupgrade) does not go anywhere and there will be a boot crash.

ispyisail wrote:

If it goes bad you would need a serial device to recover it.

Your deep in the rabbit hole now

You have Gargoyle Pocket Router (v2) (Alfa Hornet-UB x2)

https://openwrt.org/toh/alfa_network/hornet-ub

In summary you need to purchase a serial dongle

https://www.ebay.com/itm/FTDI-chip-usb- ... 3812961998

Then open up your router and plug it in

I am deep in the rabbit hole now. This is a bit of a side project; I have a working router, I just wanted the gargoyle functionality.

The big question is: Can this router be used with 1.11.0? It is a new router I bought for just this.

Lantis wrote:What upgrade command did you run? If you didn't pass the -n flag it may have configured a bad network in which case failsafe might still work.

Failsafe is worth trying before serial.

I did pass it the -n flag, alas.

RomanHK wrote:I do not know, but this message 'platform_check_image' failed is of great concern to me. In my opinion, it will be the incompatibility of Chaos Calmer (Gargoyle 1.10.0) with the new LEDE platform (Gargoyle 1.11.X). I don't know if it shouldn't have done a full reflash (... squashfs-factory.bin) - but this image is not part of the new platform and I have no idea if it even works.

Anyway (although it is unintentional ) we have feedback that this way (sysupgrade) does not go anywhere and there will be a boot crash.

Thanks for the thoughts and all the help. I very much appreciate it.