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Well, I'm an idiot. Yesterday I connected a USB drive that I was going to format, but forgot about doing so. That drive had a fresh install of armbian on it. USB is higher in boot priority so the board used that install instead of the SD one. *laughs* All is well again.

Maybe I wasn't clear enough in my initial post. The OS prompted that an update was available. I clicked on the restart and install button. I did not manually flash a new image to the card. That would have wiped my user and wifi credentials, too, which in this case were still there.

Hello all, earlier I booted up the board (Radxa Dragon Q8B) when it prompted to reboot & update and I allowed it. The update took uncharacteristically long. The OS is running off an SD card. There is no SSD or eMMC installed. Turns out it wiped the install clean. There was about 20 GB of free space prior to the update, now there's 46 GB. For some reason the user itself and the wifi login are still there, but everything in the home directory is gone. Installed applications and the driver for the wireless card are gone. Chrome add-ons are still there, but reset. The Downloads folder now has Armbian_26.8.1_Radxa-dragon-q8b_resolute_vendor_7.0.11_gnome_desktop.img.xz, which wasn't there before. I didn't lose anything important, just 60 hrs of savegames and a godot project I don't really care about. Could I stupidly have triggered this somehow? I've been running Armbian on three other boards and nothing like this happened on those. So if it's not my fault this might be a Q8B-specific problem. Thanks for any input Kind regards Edit1: Just noticed there's now another update requiring restart. Weird. Edit2: Alright, this one was pain free. I'm a bit paranoid now :,-)

Hiho~ Looks like something has changed in the meantime. After initially losing WIFI I used a WIFI USB dongle and did another upgrade. Sorry I can't remember if I did apt upgrade or if it was the armbian system upgrade in case there is any difference. During that the driver installed alright and now the internal chip once again works.