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I was running on Armbian_23.02.0-trunk.0112_Orangepi5_jammy_legacy_5.10.110_cinnamon_desktop. For the most part, it worked but the mouse cursor would randomly disappear while remaining functional but invisible. I tried to upgrade using apt-get update and apt-get full-upgrade and after a reboot, it now just displays a flashing underscore. I can SSH into the OS so it's partially functional. Shows as Armbian 23.02.2 Jammy with Linux 5.10.110-rockchip-rk3588 Contents of boot.log: ------------ Mon Feb 27 07:24:15 PST 2023 ------------ done. Begin: Mounting root file system ... Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ... done. Begin: Running /scripts/local-premount ... Scanning for Btrfs filesystems done. Begin: Will now check root file system ... fsck from util-linux 2.37.2 [/usr/sbin/fsck.ext4 (1) -- /dev/nvme0n1p2] fsck.ext4 -a -C0 /dev/nvme0n1p2 /dev/nvme0n1p2: clean, 246632/29294592 files, 4225509/117146880 blocks done. done. Begin: Running /scripts/local-bottom ... done. 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@Marco Schirrmeister Thanks for the instructions dated January 5. I finally got Jammy Cinnamon desktop 22.11.4 to boot off NVMe w/o SD card after many failed attempts. I had to make the following modifications: - I had to create the partitions in the NVMe drive using Gparted. The commands didn't work for me. I was just easier for me to use Gparted to duplicate the partitions. - The command set UUID (blkid -o export /dev/nvme0n1p2 | grep -E '(^UUID=)' | cut -d '=' -f 2) returned the error syntax error near unexpected token `(' With the help of ChatGPT, I replaced it with the command UUID=$(blkid -o export /dev/nvme0n1p2 | grep -E '(^UUID=)' | cut -d '=' -f 2) - Some of the commands require a sudo pretext. As you can tell, I'm just a noob but managed to make it work with some help.