Orangepizero does not restart any more

[FRANK333]

good morning everyone,

I installed Armbian 23.02.2 on orangepizero about a year ago without ever having a problem .
Today it suddenly stopped booting and I can't get it to start again and that's what I'm interested in, also possibly to recover internal docker configurations.
The orangepizero is powered by a 3A power supply under UPS and properly cooled, if I use the latest release on a new SD it works perfectly, so I think it is not a hardware problem.

The SD with Armbian 23.02.2 is not corrupted and I can read every part of it.
Does anyone know any tricks to get it running again?

[wulfy23]

-console connection would help ( bootlog )

-so would an earlier backup of that SD Card... ( make a backup of it now anyway )

 

personally i'd just stick with the new OS ( a year is pretty long in the tooth )... and new card... then just scp/rsync whatever is critical over to the new OS.

 

other than that try running a fsck, / seeing what the console says

 

(edit: sorry i messed the beginners bit...)

Edited May 11 by wulfy23

[FRANK333]

hi wulfy23,

the problem is that you cannot use the console because the operating system no longer starts.

If I extract the sd card and read it from the computer though, I can see all the OS files.

 

[Sune]

Do you have a USB to TTL/UART device? You would then be able to check what happens, you might even get a console through the serial connection if it starts up.

[FRANK333]

yes Sune,

 I tried with the 'serial adapter, but the console won't boot (connection parameters are correct)