Re: Need help resurrecting old Pirate Box

Thank you dearly for your response!

After following the instructions from your link and executing

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
cd /mnt/
mtd -r write openwrt-ar71xx-generic-tl-mr3020-v1-squashfs-factory.bin firmware

the last text output was "Rebooting…" as it did so. I waited 5 or so minutes expecting a confirmation that it finished on my terminal but when I started typing it said it was disconnected by unknown host. The instructions I was following indicated that when it was finished I had to run

 reboot -f 

but I'm assuming it is unnecessary now.

I took the USB out and replaced the install folder that was created on the drive with the one downloaded from http://stable.openwrt.piratebox.de/auto/install_piratebox.zip, then put the USB back in. Now it is doing a lot of blinking and what looks like rebooting, also no signal being broadcast from it yet. I will be patient and return when I believe it has finished.

Edit1:

It eventually finished!(and later read that it could take 15-20mins or even 45 on some drives)

I also went ahead and finished up the post installation steps with one small error:

Please enter your date in the format  YYYYMMDD : 20170227
Please enter your time in the format  HHMM : 1808
Mon Feb 27 18:08:00 UTC 2017
... OK
crontab: can't open 'root': No such file or directory
initialize timesave file
Remember MAY have to cron active...
  on OpenWrt run: /etc/init.d/piratebox enable
Placing Timerecover on Startup
Activating cron-service..
done

So should I go ahead and ssh into it and execute the above? Is that what it's indicating or can it be ignored? I know I read about others having issues with the date and time so I thought I'd add that here just in case.

Edit 2:

Just ran into this issue:

Lukes-MacBook-Pro:~ Luke$ ssh root@192.168.1.1
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@    WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!     @
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY!
Someone could be eavesdropping on you right now (man-in-the-middle attack)!
It is also possible that a host key has just been changed.
The fingerprint for the RSA key sent by the remote host is
c8:ac:34:58:c5:b9:53:5e:a4:9b:76:38:48:7b:fa:6d.
Please contact your system administrator.
Add correct host key in /Users/Luke/.ssh/known_hosts to get rid of this message.
Offending RSA key in /Users/Luke/.ssh/known_hosts:1
RSA host key for 192.168.1.1 has changed and you have requested strict checking.
Host key verification failed.

Should I add c8:ac:34:58:c5:b9:53:5e:a4:9b:76:38:48:7b:fa:6d to my known_hosts?