markus

Thanks for the information (and for keeping up your excellent work on this distribution). No problem about the wait time for the stable release. I'm sure it'll be worth it. Also thanks for the explanation on the supported SD cards.

Hi, Just a quick question as Debian Stretch has been out for a while now: Will there be an official upgrade of ARMBIAN for the Cubietruck (Cubieboard 3) at some point or is there a simple doc on how to upgrade the distribution? I run ARMBIAN with the legacy kernel (3.4.113-sun7i). Everything required for the system boot is in the NAND while the root and /home partitions are on the sdd. Would it be possible to upgrade to Stretch just by replacing the version name in the sources.list file? If there won't be any automated ARMBIAN upgrades to Stretch for this device. Would you recommend using the official Debian distribution (and booting from a micro-SD-card instead from the NAND)? Thanks in advance for your advice.

Hi, I've got a quick question regarding the kernel upgrade instructions on a Cubietruck that runs on Igor's Debian image. Let me mention first that the system boots from my Cubietruck's NAND. However, the root partition and the /home partition are both installed on some SSD. I've followed the instructions about the kernel upgrade (3.4.106-cubieboard to 3.19.6-cubietruck) in order to be able to use the proper shutdown feature - as detailed on http://www.igorpecovnik.com/2013/12/24/cubietruck-debian-wheezy-sd-card-image/. I.e. I installed the various *.deb packages which were contained in the *.tar archive via `dpkg -i`. Then I ran the steps as described on "Optional steps if you have your system on NAND" and rebooted. Apparently, the kernel in use is still my trusty 3.4.106-cubieboard. The new one (3.19.6) hasn't been loaded. Am I missing a step here? Would I need to edit the boot loader (grub?) or would I have to uninstall the old kernel in order to be able to use the new one? Any hint would be greatly appreciated. ~/KERNELS/3.19.6$ ls 3.19.6-cubietruck-next.tar linux-dtb-3.19.6-cubietruck_3.6_armhf.deb linux-headers-3.19.6-cubietruck_3.6_armhf.deb linux-image-3.19.6-cubietruck_3.6_armhf.deb linux-libc-dev_3.6_armhf.deb linux-u-boot-3.19.6-cubietruck_3.6_armhf.deb ~/KERNELS/3.19.6$ uname -a Linux stronghold 3.4.106-cubieboard #2 SMP PREEMPT Tue Feb 17 06:16:56 CET 2015 armv7l GNU/Linux ~/KERNELS/3.19.6$ uname -r 3.4.106-cubieboard ~/KERNELS/3.19.6$ uname -o GNU/Linux ~/KERNELS/3.19.6$ cd /boot/ /boot$ ls boot.cmd System.map-3.19.6-cubietruck boot.scr uImage config-3.19.6-cubietruck vmlinuz-3.19.6-cubietruck dtb zImage initrd.img-3.19.6-cubietruck /boot$ sudo dpkg-query -l 'linux*' Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==============-============-============-================================= ii linux-dtb-3.19 3.6 armhf Linux DTB, version 3.19.6-cubietr un linux-firmware <none> <none> (no description available) ii linux-firmware 3.3 armhf Linux kernel firmware, version 3. un linux-headers <none> <none> (no description available) un linux-headers- <none> <none> (no description available) ii linux-headers- 3.6 armhf Linux kernel headers for 3.19.6-c ii linux-headers- 3.3 armhf Linux kernel headers for 3.4.106- un linux-image <none> <none> (no description available) un linux-image-2. <none> <none> (no description available) ii linux-image-3. 3.6 armhf Linux kernel, version 3.19.6-cubi ii linux-image-3. 3.3 armhf Linux kernel, version 3.4.106-cub un linux-initramf <none> <none> (no description available) un linux-kernel-h <none> <none> (no description available) un linux-kernel-l <none> <none> (no description available) ii linux-libc-dev 3.16.7-ckt11 armhf Linux support headers for userspa un linux-modules- <none> <none> (no description available) un linux-modules- <none> <none> (no description available) ii linux-u-boot-3 3.6 all Uboot loader