Kernel switching from 5.10 legacy to 6.1 vendor in existing Armbian installation

[zetalex]

Hello everyone:

 

I own an Orange Pi 5B 16GB. Today I updated from Armbian 24.2.1 to 24.5.1 stable. This new release includes the 6.1 kernel.

When I issue the apt upgrade command I correctly get updated to 24.5.1 version but I am still in kernel 5.10.

So, in order to be at kernel 6.1, I use armbian-config.

The problem is, after doing this and rebooting, the board no longer boots, I dont' get SSH, anything...

Another thing that I updated besides armbian itself where sobre libraries like libv4l or libmpp from @amazingfate, before updating those 6.1 kernel switching worked.

 

Any help in how can I debug (like reading UART port) or solve this?

Thanks in advance

 

[amazingfate]

What's the serial log when board is not booting?

I never use armbian-config to switch kernel. I just use apt to install linux-dtb and linux-image packages and make sure apt runs fine.

[specs]

Don't use armbian-config for that purpose.

Update the kernel using apt. But update dtb, bsp-cli and linux-image together. Optionally you might include the kernel-headers and the libc-dev-vendor-package.

 

Something like this:

apt -d install armbian-bsp-cli-rock-5b-vendor linux-dtb-vendor-rockchip-rk3588 linux-image-vendor-rockchip-rk3588 linux-u-boot-rock-5b-vendor

With the -d option, you download first before installing. Also, with the above command the sytem only installs packages it can find. Perhaps you need

apt search vendor

To search the exact package names.

 

The other options for the kernel are 5.10 (legacy), 6.8/6.9 and 6.10-rcX (edge).

[zetalex]

Hello @specs. 

My board is an Orange Pi5B 16GB RAM. Are those the correct package name or instead of the rock-5b I have to look for orangepi 5b packages?

 

Thank you

[specs]

Of course they should for the orangepi. If you are looking for the name look at the currently installed linux-image package, replace "legacy" with "vendor", etc..
 

apt search linux-image.*vendor

apt search orangepi5

 

Just don't forget to install the dtb and u-boot next to the linux-image, if you switch kernels the u-boot package.