Netgear 8000 in a reboot loop
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Trying to unbrick a R8000 that is in a reboot loop.
It's so close to working. I just get the timeout after a few seconds at the uploading step
`D:\Downloads\nmrpflash-0.9.21-win32>nmrpflash.exe -i net14 -f R8000-V1.0.0.46_1.0.17.chk -T 1800 -vvv
{7B6D8CCA-8A0D-46EB-A95B-4381E4415CXX}: Type=6, Name=Intel Server LAN
Waiting for Ethernet connection (Ctrl-C to skip).
Adding 10.164.183.252 to interface net14.
Advertising NMRP server on net14 ...
Received configuration request from e8:fc:af:f8:e0:XX.
Sending configuration: 10.164.183.253/24.
Received upload request without filename.
Using remote filename 'R8000-V1.0.0.46_1.0.17.chk'.
Uploading R8000-V1.0.0.46_1.0.17.chk ... << WRQ(R8000-V1.0.0.46_1.0.17.chk, octet)
ACK(0)
Drained 10 packet(s) from rx buffer
<< DATA(1)
ACK(0)
ACK(0)
<< DATA(1)
<< DATA(1)
<< DATA(1)
<< DATA(1)
Timeout while waiting for ACK(1).`
I've tried a few official firmware versions, this is the smallest. No luck so far.
I ended up restoring the firmware via TTL USB and tftpd, so weird this didn't go. I later found out that the owner had put the init file for freshtomato on, but it must of been a version for a different router. The router would load the image, and I could even dump into the serial console when connected via serial it was just something in the boot process that was failing and causing the continuous restart.