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hm. not sure I get it. do you mean that upgrading armbian is completely unsupported and that I should always do a fresh reinstall? it was non trivial to set everything up as it is now. I have everything encrypted including the root filesystem installed on eMMC, proper harddisk configuration with spindows etc. and quite a bit of software installed and configured. reinstall would be a serious pain. If USB is not working I don't really care. I run it as a NAS in another room. unless I reboot (and have to specify my crypt password) I never attach a keyboard. suprisingly entering the password works during boot 🤔

After happily using my helios64 with armbian buster for years I finally dared to upgrade and everything went smoothly. I found instructions somewhere here in this forum and this is what I did. I first commented out /etc/apt/sources.list.d/armbian.list Then I upgraded to bullseye by replacing everything buster with bullseye in /etc/apt/sources.list (I think I also had to change the url to the security repo) Then I did apt-get update && apt full-upgrade and rebooted. Great success! Then the same for bookworm and again great success. Then reenabled the armbian apt repo with bookworm. again full-upgrade, reboot and again great success. Now I have kernel 6.1.50-current-rockchip64 Now the thing I don't understand: When I ssh to the machine it still lists buster and /etc/armbian-release is untouched. I checked a bit and /etc/armbian-release is part of linux-buster-root-current-helios64 on my system which sounds suspicious. The package seems to contain super integral parts of the system. udev rules, systemd rules etcpp. and is still installed. I don't see an obvious replacement for it. Can somebody shed some light on it? What did I miss?