Odroid N2+ shut down during update and won't boot now #8174
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I was What are the steps for recovering from here? On a normal computer I would try something like chrooting and force reinstalling the update. But I am not sure what to do here. Thanks. |
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One of the problems with DKMS: if it fails, some package Most likely, you can recover it by creating the following symlinks:
They are most likely still pointing to the old versions, which do not exist anymore. I hope the initramfs image has been generated already. |
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Thanks very much. I decided to backup important files and reinstall dietpi instead. I will keep this in mind the next time it happens. Pleasantly, I seem to not need the DKMS for the wifi anymore so at least some good came out of this. |
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Right, if for some Realtek WiFi dongle, recent Linux versions added a lot of drivers for those. |
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One of the problems with DKMS: if it fails, some package
postinststeps might be missing, and if it crashes, that may result in an unbootable system. Which driver are you missing/adding with DKMS?Most likely, you can recover it by creating the following symlinks:
/boot/Image->vmlinuz-6.18.*/boot/dtb->dtb-6.18.*/boot/initrd.img->initrd.img-6.18.*They are most likely still pointing to the old versions, which do not exist anymore. I hope the initramfs image has been generated already.