Armbian updates crashes boot

[Weenig]

Hi all! 

I have Armbian installed on a rock 4SE (Tagged as 4B as it uses the same image i believe) as the base for an OpenMediaVault. Yesterday i installed the latest version of Bookworm, as i am running OMV7 and that, as far as i can tell, does not work on Trixie. I am not ready to upgrade to Trixie/OMV8, as im not sure there is support for my Penta sata hat yet. 

My issue is that if i install the updates, either through OMV interface, or apt, the device does not boot after applying the updates. As far as i can tell from logs etc. something is either wrong with loading the kernel image on boot, or with the image itself. 
If i install Armbian, and then OMV, everything works just fine, i just have 132 pending updates. Including a kernel update that takes the version from 6.1.63, to 6.12.58. 
Have anyone had any similar issues, or any potential solutions? 

I can tell that it installed the updates by itself during the night, and is currently waiting for a reboot. And im a but scared to reboot it, since it might not boot correctly. 

Thanks in advance!

[Werner]

24 minutes ago, Weenig said:

logs

That would be a good start indeed.

[Weenig]

I just had to take the service offline, and on boot it failed again. I had the updates installed, but not applied through a reboot. When i boot the device, i just get a few blinks on the heartbeat LED, and then nothing. Not even a display output. 

The only thing i can think of, is to try to reinstall the OS on the SD card, and then update through the CLI before i install OMV and see if i can get a different result.

Any other advice? Thanks.

[Weenig]

I just updated, and upgraded the image I installed via ssh. After a reboot nothing happens. If I then kill the power and boot it again, I get this very brief video output, where the last line is “starting kernel” and then it crashes. 
 

I managed to get a video of it, and took a few screenshots. 
https://imgur.com/a/COaD6lb

 

any assistance is appreciated!

[eselarm]

17 minutes ago, Weenig said:

where the last line is “starting kernel” and then it crashes. 

What happens after this is needed. make sure loglevel is 7 in armbianEnv.txt

Hopefully yo have a serial console cable so you can copy and paste the text here on the forum, is better than pictures on imgur (site is blocked in UK by the way)

Edited 3 hours ago by eselarm

[Werner]

How to debug boot issues: https://debug.armbian.de

 

[Weenig]

Appreciate the quick replies! 
Turns out im just an idiot, and completely forgot to freeze the kernel. 

have a great evening!