I have a pair of Negear r6300v2. Both load Netgear firmware just fine. Only one works with recent dd-wrt builds due to the other having the bad eraseblock issue causing a kernel panic (using CFE serial console to recover.) I was able to build an old DD-WRT v24-sp2 "mega" version and that worked just fine on the "defective" router, FW size 7,344,186, but when I try to load a more modern Kong Linux 4.4 file it fails.
I've read that the squashfs itself doesn't handle bad NAND blocks, but is there any strategy for for handling this? As in -- if I used the firmware mod kit to strip the size down on a modern build, does that code have a strategy for loading from NAND memory with bad blocks such taht I could load a full-featured firmware? Or is this something that requires CFE mods?
Thanks for any information!
Steve...