Dietpi: Dietpi hangs at boot after first-run upgrade | XU4

[joaofl]

If you are effected by failure to boot XU4 after apt-get upgrade kernel upgrade, please see:

- https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/issues/1105#issuecomment-321542109

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After flashing the image DietPi_v151_OdroidXU4-armv7-(Jessie), during first time boot, the Dietpi updates itself from 151 to 154 and reboots. Next, it asks for softwares to be installed, and without selecting any, I click Go, what leads to an "apt upgrade".

The first upgrade takes some 20 min, and after it, it reboots automatically, but hangs during boot as on the picture below.

If I unplug it, and plug again, it does not boot anymore.
Happened 3 times in a row, with different SD cards, and with/without external USB drives plugged into the USB.

** the same does not happen with the image containing the kernel 4.9

[Fourdee]

@joaofl

Thanks for the report 👍 I'll take a look.

[Fourdee]

• 🈴 initramfs: No drives/partitions listed in blkid
  Kernel date 7th Aug
  
  
  
  • 🈺 Changes to the /boot/boot.ini boot up code required, due to new support for eMMC 5.1 AFAIK
    
    https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/commit/6a7bed1e87bc96d9bdc2e459f03e35676205bcd5#diff-8c4a8f176043d56dac80fbbdf318e3f7
  
  

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- 🈯️ XU4 image updated: http://dietpi.com/downloads/images/DietPi_OdroidXU4-armv7-(Jessie).7z

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Existing installations, if you experience failure to boot, after the kernel upgrade (apt-get upgrade):

• You will need to replace /boot/boot.ini with the following file: https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/blob/testing/boot_xu4.ini
• System will now boot

[Fourdee]

@joaofl

Image updated: https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/issues/1105#issuecomment-321542109

Thanks for reporting this 👍

[Fourdee]

Completed, however existing installations will need to manually update their boot.ini after kernel upgrade:
https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/issues/1105#issuecomment-321542109

[kevinhaendel]

I tried the following:

First, I used this image here: http://dietpi.com/downloads/images/DietPi_OdroidXU4-armv7-(Jessie).7z , and then I replaced the boot.ini file before and after "apt-get upgrade". But in both cases it is still not working.

I used a workaround until this is working again:

I typed "apt-mark hold uboot" to prevent uboot from upgrading, this solves my problem, but I hope I can update it again in the future.

[joaofl]

At some point the new image provided by @Fourdee worked out. But yesterday it seems that upgrading the uboot caused some issue (again). Again it hanged during boot. Not even the hearbeat LED blinks.

Not sure what to do.