Joined: 08 May 2018 Posts: 14125 Location: Texas, USA
Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2020 1:09 Post subject:
His build is after the fix for reverting to stock in 2017. If it's not working, then it is a specific issue with the 1200s or it's because there is a larger problem. Thank you for stepping in @blkt, because I was about to lose my marbles.
I managed to get internet access and execute the commands above. Unfortunately, this hasn't helped. Upon rebooting to partition 1, as before, I can't even ping the router.
I powered off three times and when it booted, it booted to the latest version of dd-wrt. I confirmed that partition 2 was active. It must have flashed partition 2 rather than partition 1 (while partition 2 was booted). Weird.
I flashed stock from there and rebooted, and it booted to partition 1 running stock.
For whatever reason, the 8/1/2018 build of dd-wrt that I had to use to get dd-wrt to flash correctly wasn't flashing stock or any dd-wrt build (old or current) to partition 1.
The write sequence to upgrade dd-wrt will check the current boot_part value and write to the opposite.
It didn't though. I used write from partition 2 and then partition 1 still wouldn't boot. When I booted into partition 2 after powering off three times to switch partitions, it booted the new build of dd-wrt.