This section covers a few methods to flash firmware onto your Lima.
Connect to your Lima's web interface and navigate to (System → Backup / Flash Firmware),
then select your firmware image and press Flash image
, on the next page click Proceed
to begin flashing.
Connect into Lima and download the binary image to RAM under /tmp
.
(Alter your username, IP and path to match your binary image location)
scp tester@192.168.1.254:/home/tester/openwrt-8devices-v2.10-ar71xx-generic-lima-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin /tmp
Perform upgrade procedure with configuration reset:
sysupgrade -v -n /tmp/openwrt-8devices-v2.10-ar71xx-generic-lima-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin
Perform upgrade procedure without configuration reset:
sysupgrade -v -c /tmp/openwrt-8devices-v2.10-ar71xx-generic-lima-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin
This is an alternative firmware upgrade method that also begins by copying the firmware image into RAM.
scp tester@192.168.1.254:/home/tester/openwrt-8devices-v2.10-ar71xx-generic-lima-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin /tmp
Afterwards, execute the following:
mtd -r write /tmp/openwrt-8devices-v2.10-ar71xx-generic-lima-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin firmware