Something went wrong with the update of an older TW (XFCE Desktop) install on a Rapsi 3, now the boot shows “Welcome to grub” and then swiches to a GRUB console, no idea what to do there.
Had a look at the first partition of the SD-card (BOOT), compared to another Raspi 3 with TW, had no /EFI/BOOT/grub.cfg file. Copied over from other Rapsi, replacing the UUID from the actual card, didn’t change anything.
Any ideas (as there is no way to boot the raspi from CD, USB etc.) how to get this going again?
Hi
FYI, RPI installs, aren’t installs but created from a prebuilt image onto a MicroSD or USB device… there are only a few questions to answer for setup, but nothing like an iso image install…
No, he means if you install an ISO image, let’s say 6 months old, you have to most likely download gigabytes of data because everything has gone up a version or two. Thus, the old ISO is out of date and “deprecated” (meaning a new version is available)
Personally, I’d just grab the latest TW ISO and install it on top of your old version - it should “upgrade” and save your configuration files.
The TW that failed to update was running for more than a year, last update some 3-4 weeks ago (8GB card btw…, so problems ahead). Tried to update anyway, had 900 updates, after reboot no kernels etc.
By new install from TW .iso you mean the procedure described here:
Start with checking from where this grub was loaded. Use “echo $cmdpath” (or simply “set” command); $cmdpath on EFI should be set to full directory name from which grub was loaded
How exactly you “had a look”? Please paste exact commands used to get access to and display content of /boot/ with their output.
I took out the SD-card from the Raspi3, mounted it in my laptop (TW) and opened Dolphin
I took even an SD-card from a fresh TW on Raspi3 (the one with JeOS and Desktop installed on top prepared last week) and tried to copy the kernels and initramfs etc. (to my laptop, from there I wanted to copy them to the non-functional SD-card), but Dophin refused to copy initramfs at all…
On Sun 08 Oct 2017 02:16:01 PM CDT, suse rasputin wrote:
Hi arvid!
I took out the SD-card from the Raspi3, mounted it in my laptop (TW) and
opened Dolphin
I took even an SD-card from a fresh TW on Raspi3 (the one with JeOS and
Desktop installed on top prepared last week) and tried to copy the
kernels and initramfs etc. (to my laptop, from there I wanted to copy
them to the non-functional SD-card), but Dophin refused to copy
initramfs at all…
Hi
You need to be root user and use the command line, don’t copy the
softlinks, just recreate manually on the faulty /boot else they will
link to the system in use.
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Once installed, TW can be upgraded indefinitely.
But, the install source becomes unusable quickly when it’s no longer consistent with what is in the online repos.
suse_rasputin;2841046 Wrote:
> @tsu
>
> What do you mean by “deprecated”? Are TW on raspi installs not meant
> to be updated? Just install and never update? shock
>
> It was a samba server, miight anybody guide me trough how to save my
> samba config, passwords etc and “transplant” to a fresh install (TW or
> whatever…)
>
> Many thanks in advance!
Once installed, TW can be upgraded indefinitely.
But, the install source becomes unusable quickly when it’s no longer
consistent with what is in the online repos.
TSU
Hi
Were talking about ARM ports here… and they don’t get
upgraded/updated as much.
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