JF002 Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 Hi! I've been using Armbian on my Odroid XU4 for some months now. It runs LogitechMediaServer, Home-assistant, Openmediavault,... It's great. However, today, I've just ran apt-get upgrade, reboot because of an update of the kernel and then... no reboot! The blue LED of the Odroid is lit (it doesn't blink), there is nothing on the HDMI output, nothing on the network,... It seems like the odroid cannot load the kernel. Is there anything I could do to try to make it boot again ? Yeah, I know, I should have done a backup of the SD card before the update ... Thanks for your help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 I assume you don't have serial console to debug? Can you provide at least from which version you issue this update? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JF002 Posted March 18, 2017 Author Share Posted March 18, 2017 3 minutes ago, Igor said: I assume you don't have serial console to debug? Can you provide at least from which version you issue this update? Unfortunately... No, I do not have the serial adapter :/ I can mount the SD card on a linux computer, if it can help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 36 minutes ago, JF002 said: I can mount the SD card on a linux computer, if it can help. Yes, paste content of one or both files: /etc/armbian-release /etc/armbian.txt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JF002 Posted March 18, 2017 Author Share Posted March 18, 2017 7 minutes ago, Igor said: Yes, paste content of one or both files: /etc/armbian-release /etc/armbian.txt /etc/armbian-release BOARD=odroidxu4 BOARD_NAME="Odroid XU4" VERSION=5.25 LINUXFAMILY=odroidxu4 BRANCH=default ARCH=arm IMAGE_TYPE=stable Header of /etc/armbian.txt -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Title: Armbian 5.25 Odroidxu4 Debian jessie default Kernel: Linux 3.10.104 Build date: 02.02.2017 Authors: http://www.armbian.com/authors Sources: http://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib Support: http://forum.armbian.com/ Changelog: http://www.armbian.com/logbook/ Documantation: http://docs.armbian.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I've nearly connected the serial pins of the odroid on a RaspberryPi in order to see debug messages until... I noticed that the odroid pins are 1.8V TTL... it won't work :/ Note that this file refers to kernel 3.10.104 BUT.. in the BOOT partition, I see these files: * config-3.10.105-odroidxu4 * initrd.img-3.10.105-odroidxu4 * system.map-3.10.105-odroidxu4 * (folder) dtb-3.10.103-odroidxu4.old So, It seems there is a backup of a kernel 3.10.103, a new kernel 3.10.105, but nothing that refers to 3.10.104. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 Huh. Which version did you start with? Also provide /boot/boot.ini Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JF002 Posted March 18, 2017 Author Share Posted March 18, 2017 I still have an old prompt opened from the odroid: Welcome to ARMBIAN 5.25 stable Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie) 3.10.104-odroidxu4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JF002 Posted March 18, 2017 Author Share Posted March 18, 2017 Ok, I don't know what happened, but it's possible that I interrupted the update process when it wasn't finished... I think I'm going to reinstall the whole system... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 OK, I'll also check if there is something wrong with our update process. Bugs, if exists, have to be hunt down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JF002 Posted March 18, 2017 Author Share Posted March 18, 2017 Thank you for your help, @Igor. It's just that I have a lot of doubt about what I was doing this afternoon (a lot of things at the same time), and I thing that the bug is me, this time. I'll download the last version of Armbian, install it and reinstall all my services 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 I made a test upgrade from oldest image, that is available on download section and it hangs ... you need to exchange boot scripts, edit this parameter (/dev/mmcblk0p1 -> /dev/mmcblk0p2) and it works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigG2017 Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 I remember encountering this issue when I attempted a system upgrade a couple of weeks ago. So, to avoid having to start from scratch, I decided to use the diskimager tool on my Win10 machine to make a bootable image. However, I've now tried two different micro sd cards (a Samsung and a Sandisk) for the backup, but Win10 tells me that it doesn't recognize the file system. It asks me if I want to format the cards. Obviously I don't, because neither would be usable my Odroid xu4. Any idea why I can't backup these Armbian xenial images? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TechLord Posted April 17, 2017 Share Posted April 17, 2017 First off, thank you Igor for your final post. I was delaying upgrading my Odroid's software because of this upgrade issue. After following your instructions, however, my system works perfectly and is fully updated. Also, I was wondering if you, or anyone else, had any recommendations for how to increase the size of the boot partition. Mine is consistently failing to update due to not enough space available. Any ideas would be appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigG2017 Posted April 17, 2017 Share Posted April 17, 2017 Newbie here..."you need to exchange boot scripts, edit this parameter (/dev/mmcblk0p1 -> /dev/mmcblk0p2) and it works." How and when do I exactly do that? Upgrade and then change it? Please help me with necessary command line actions. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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