mk16

I managed to compile and install the latest stable kernel (4.3.4) using those instructions: http://www.armbian.com/using-armbian-tools/ Next time I'll RTFM

Great! I don't recall precisely the command, is it debuild? For now I've exluded the following packages from upgrade: hi linux-dtb-next-sunxi 4.5 armhf Linux DTB, version 4.2.3-sunxi hi linux-firmware-image-next-sunxi 4.5 armhf Linux kernel firmware, version 4.2.3-sunxi hi linux-headers-next-sunxi 4.5 armhf Linux kernel headers for 4.2.3-sunxi on armhf hi linux-image-next-sunxi 4.5 armhf Linux kernel, version 4.2.3-sunxi hi linux-wheezy-root-next-bananapi 4.5 armhf Various root file system tweaks for ARM boards Should I compile only the image package?

Okay, will do.

Should I pin the kernel packages to the 4.2.3 version for the time being? I'm planning in the near future to boot from SATA, I suppose I won't be affected by the issue then? Thanks for the quick answers btw

I've used those two vanilla images, v4.5 indeed: Wheezy & Jessie When I did a dist-upgrade, the kernel was updated from 4.2.3 to 4.3.3, here's the /boot dir after the upgrade: root@bananapi:/boot# ls -al total 7572 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Jan 19 21:31 . drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Jan 19 21:12 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 19 21:28 bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6944 Oct 11 19:10 boot.bmp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1896 Jan 19 21:17 boot.cmd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1968 Jan 19 21:33 boot.scr -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 122375 Dec 28 11:27 config-4.3.3-sunxi drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Jan 19 21:26 dtb drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 28 11:27 dtb.old -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 19 21:29 .next lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Oct 11 19:11 script.bin -> /boot/bin/bananapi.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1988477 Dec 28 11:27 System.map-4.3.3-sunxi -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5591872 Dec 28 11:27 vmlinuz-4.3.3-sunxi lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Jan 19 21:29 zImage -> vmlinuz-4.3.3-sunxi

Hello, First of all thanks for the very nice dist, it's clean and optimized. Unfortunately the Banana Pi is unbootable after having done the following: Migrate the root fs to my USB drive and make it bootable with the nand-sata-install script Change the hostname (modify /etc/hosts, modify /etc/hostname, run /etc/init.d/hostname.sh, reboot) run apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade, reboot Each time the Banana Pi could not boot anymore, and that happened with both Jessie and Wheezie images. I can't get any screenshots of the boot screen because it's a headless server. Any ideas? mk16