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RouterOS on APU2

Fri Mar 09, 2018 9:26 am

Hello, recently i purchased latest apu boards(2 x apu2), equipped with wle600vx wifi card, msata ssd and sd card, especially to install routeros on them. But unfortunately the installing process it get stuck at
'Fatat error: no harddrives found' ( p.s: since apu have only the serial port for the output, console must be redirected to serial and this must be done in syslinux.cfg and isolinux.cfg)
So untill now i tried with 1 msata, 1 sd card and additional 1 usb stick, it doesn't recognize any storage device.. :shock: I'm kind a angry as well as i was 100% sure that i could install routeros on this boards. Can i ask why are there limitations for? I can easily install any other os like pfsense, debian centos etc but not routeros..
 
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Re: RouterOS on APU2

Thu Mar 29, 2018 1:06 am

Bump, there is no solution for home usage with such boxes like Alix/APU?
 
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Re: RouterOS on APU2

Thu Mar 29, 2018 2:47 am

Did you netinstall to the msata and then try booting your device? Its likelihood of working probably depends on if RouterOS has the needed drivers for the hardware.

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Re: RouterOS on APU2

Fri Mar 30, 2018 12:31 am

Hi, thanks i will try to netinstall on a sd card.
 
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Re: RouterOS on APU2

Mon Apr 02, 2018 11:28 am

Hi, nope still the same problem so neither netinstall isn't working because it won;t install the entire system, it will just copy some packages and you have to boot from that device in order to install routeros.
 
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Re: RouterOS on APU2

Mon Apr 02, 2018 12:18 pm

I successfully installed Vmware ESXi and then installed the Cloud Hosted Router. Yes, this is not bare metal, but it does work. Used for experimentation - did not continue into production access.
 
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Re: RouterOS on APU2

Tue Apr 03, 2018 9:12 am

Well yes chr seems like the only solution but in this case i will loose the wifi cards..