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Best/easiest way to downgrade kernel (if possible without reinstalling)


gilarelli

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Armbianmonitor:

Hi,

 

I would like to know if it is possible to switch from the current branch to the legacy one as I've read that the board will be much more stable with the older kernel ?

 

I've installed my NanopiM4 last march, and I've experienced some random freezes of my board after some time (can take weeks). It seems that one of my solutions would be to use the legacy kernel as it is much more stable - information I got by reading the forums (something I haven't done before because I'm stupid and was in a hurry...).

 

Is it possible to downgrade only the kernel at all ?

 

Here are the packages that (I think) I have to replace :

linux-buster-root-current-nanopim4/buster,now 20.08.3 arm64  [installed]
linux-dtb-current-rockchip64/buster,now 20.08.3 arm64  [installed]
linux-headers-current-rockchip64/buster,now 20.08.3 arm64  [installed]
linux-image-current-rockchip64/buster,now 20.08.3 arm64  [installed]
linux-u-boot-nanopim4-current/buster,now 20.08.1 arm64  [installed]

With those packages, then :

linux-buster-root-legacy-nanopim4 - armbian tweaks for buster on nanopim4 (legacy branch)
linux-dtb-legacy-rockchip64 - linux dtb, version 4.4.213-rockchip64
linux-headers-legacy-rockchip64 - linux kernel headers for 4.4.213-rockchip64 on arm64
linux-image-legacy-rockchip64 - linux kernel, version 4.4.213-rockchip64
linux-u-boot-nanopim4-legacy - uboot loader 2020.07

 

Will that be enough or are more packages needed without screwing my install ?

Should I use apt-get or do I have to use the armbian-config tool instead ?

Is there an order to respect ?

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Well, that didn't went as planned...

 

The bad news is that it doesn't boot anymore:

2020-09-25-09-04-04-Bo-te-de-r-ception-B

 

The "good" news is that I can boot with a legacy SDCard (yay !).

 

I've tried the menu "Install/Update the bootloader on SD/eMMC" in the armbian-config tool, but I've got the same error...

 

The legacy boot files seems to be all there on my /boot folder :

-rw-r--r--  1 root root      151 Sep 23 08:02 armbianEnv.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 root root        0 Sep 23 10:10 armbianEnv.txt.out
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     1536 Mar  9  2020 armbian_first_run.txt.template
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    38518 Mar  9  2020 boot.bmp
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     2868 Mar  9  2020 boot.cmd
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     4882 Mar  9  2020 boot-desktop.png
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     2940 Mar  9  2020 boot.scr
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   160119 Sep 18 11:19 config-4.4.213-rockchip64
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       22 Sep 25 06:40 dtb -> dtb-4.4.213-rockchip64
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root     4096 Sep 25 06:40 dtb-4.4.213-rockchip64
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       26 Sep 25 06:40 Image -> vmlinux-4.4.213-rockchip64
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 12165147 Sep 25 06:40 initrd.img-4.4.213-rockchip64
-rw-r--r--  1 root root        0 Sep 25 06:40 .next
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  4553000 Sep 18 11:19 System.map-4.4.213-rockchip64
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       26 Sep 25 06:40 uInitrd -> uInitrd-4.4.213-rockchip64
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 12165211 Sep 25 06:40 uInitrd-4.4.213-rockchip64
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 22114312 Sep 18 11:19 vmlinux-4.4.213-rockchip64

Any idea on what I can try to boot from the emmc again ?

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I have a different kernel on the eMMC after running the armbian-config tool that the one on the SDCard:

 

SDCard /boot emmc /boot

config-4.4.213-rk3399
dtb-4.4.213-rk3399
initrd.img-4.4.213-rk3399
System.map-4.4.213-rk3399
uInitrd-4.4.213-rk3399
vmlinux-4.4.213-rk3399

config-4.4.213-rockchip64
dtb-4.4.213-rockchip64
initrd.img-4.4.213-rockchip64
System.map-4.4.213-rockchip64
uInitrd-4.4.213-rockchip64
vmlinux-4.4.213-rockchip64

 

Here are some other differences

 

SDCard /etc/armbian-release eMMC /etc/armbian-release

BOARD=nanopim4
BOARD_NAME="NanoPi M4"
BOARDFAMILY=rk3399
DISTRIBUTION_CODENAME=buster
DISTRIBUTION_STATUS=supported
VERSION=20.08.1
LINUXFAMILY=rk3399
BRANCH=legacy
ARCH=arm64
IMAGE_TYPE=stable
BOARD_TYPE=conf
INITRD_ARCH=arm64
KERNEL_IMAGE_TYPE=Image

BOARD=nanopim4
BOARD_NAME="NanoPi M4"
BOARDFAMILY=rk3399
DISTRIBUTION_CODENAME=buster
DISTRIBUTION_STATUS=supported
VERSION=20.08.3
LINUXFAMILY=rk3399
BRANCH=legacy
ARCH=arm64
IMAGE_TYPE=user-built
BOARD_TYPE=conf
INITRD_ARCH=arm64
KERNEL_IMAGE_TYPE=Image

SDCard /etc/armbian-image-release eMMC /etc/armbian-image-release
BOARD=nanopim4
BOARD_NAME="NanoPi M4"
BOARDFAMILY=rk3399
BUILD_REPOSITORY_URL=https://github.com/armbian/build
DISTRIBUTION_CODENAME=buster
DISTRIBUTION_STATUS=supported
VERSION=20.08.1
LINUXFAMILY=rk3399

BRANCH=legacy
ARCH=arm64
IMAGE_TYPE=stable
BOARD_TYPE=conf
INITRD_ARCH=arm64
KERNEL_IMAGE_TYPE=Image
BOARD=nanopim4
BOARD_NAME="NanoPi M4"
BOARDFAMILY=rk3399
BUILD_REPOSITORY_URL=https://github.com/armbian/rkbin
DISTRIBUTION_CODENAME=buster
DISTRIBUTION_STATUS=supported
VERSION=20.02.1
LINUXFAMILY=rockchip64

BRANCH=current
ARCH=arm64
IMAGE_TYPE=stable
BOARD_TYPE=conf
INITRD_ARCH=arm64
KERNEL_IMAGE_TYPE=Image

 

Edit: I can boot on the eMMC system by changing the armbianEnv.txt ; go to maintenance mode, but that's already a start.

 

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It's solved !

 

So: after modifying the /boot/armbianEnv.txt file and booting in maintenance mode, I installed the same packages as the ones on the SDCard (*rk3399 instead of *rockchip64) and now it's working fine.

 

I'll just check if everything is really fine, but this topic can be closed.

Thanks for your help !

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