SteeMan

Upgrades between ubuntu or debian versions have never been officially supported by armbian. The recommended approach would be to reinstall the newer version. Having said that, it should be possible to upgrade following the standard ubuntu upgrade instructions (google for examples of upgrading from ubuntu xenial to beaver). There are a couple of armbian specific things to look out for: 1) make a backup and be prepared to restore the backup as you might find that you need to try this process more than once to get it right - unfortunately because you are installed on emmc that is much more difficult than if you were running from an sd card. 2) After you run the ubuntu upgrade, and before you do a generic apt update/upgrade and certainly before you reboot, you will need to look at the armbian specific files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d and manually edit those files to convert them from the old ubuntu distribution to the new. I have done this process once or twice just as a proof of concept, but I generally find that after a couple of years, its better to do a clean install and start from there in my personal opinion.

@Sajjad TV Boxes are not supported by Armbian. There is some community work that has been done with them however, thus this subforum. Please read the following two TV Box FAQ items: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/16976-status-of-armbian-on-tv-boxes-please-read-first https://forum.armbian.com/topic/17106-installation-instructions-for-tv-boxes-with-amlogic-cpus

@Dams2000 There is no one involved in the ophub project that participates in these armbian forums. I don't know why they refer to those builds as armbian as they have no tie to the armbian project, other than they have forked off of armbian. You will need to contact the authors of that code to get an answer to your question.

Is the USB drive externally powered? I wouldn't expect a cheap tv box to supply enough power over USB to be stable.

@mattmar TV Boxes are not supported by the Armbian project. Moved your post to the TV Box Club area of the forum where users of these types of boxes hang out for unofficial help.

@prol I workaround for this issue that I am testing is to use the /boot partition from the sd card but the /root partition from your emmc. Since the boot parttion is essential not used after boot you don't really need to worry about sd card wear or speed. To do this you need to modify the boot command in the extlinux.conf file (on your sd card) to use 'root=LABEL=ROOT_EMMC' and then change the fstab file (on your emmc) to mount the correct /boot. I then cleaned up my sd card by deleting the /root partition and cleaned up my emmc and deleted the /boot partiation, but that isn't necessary. As I said I am testing this and by that I mean it works to boot, but I haven't put it through enough reboots to feel 100% confident that this will always work. But I haven't had any issues since I implemented this work around a couple of weeks ago.

You do realize this is an Armbian forum. You should ask your question in a manjaro forum.

I would say this problem is common with the s905x2 and s905x3 boxes. I have this issue on my boxes as well. I don't know of anyone that has tracked down the root cause.