December 27, 2025Dec 27 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!
January 15Jan 15 Author 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.
January 15Jan 15 Author 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!
January 15Jan 15 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 January 15Jan 15 by eselarm
January 15Jan 15 Author Appreciate the quick replies! Turns out im just an idiot, and completely forgot to freeze the kernel. have a great evening!
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