NanoPi NEO2 NAS dock - update to buster?

[jmacdowall@gmail.com]

I downloaded the official SD image for the NEO2 NAS and installed it and got it running. I wanted to update so with a little tinkering I changed /etc/apt/sources.list to this:

deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie main
deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie-updates main
deb http://security.debian.org jessie/updates main

I did:
apt update
apt upgrade

and rebooted and everything was great. So I edited /etc/apt/sources.list again and replaced jessie with stretch and then:

apt update
apt upgrade
apt dist-upgrade

and rebooted and everything was great. So I edited /etc/apt/sources.list and replaced stretch with buster and then:

apt update
apt upgrade
apt dist-upgrade

and it wouldn't boot. I pulled the NEO2 off the dock and booted it up fine with a mUSB power cable.

Where did I go wrong???

Help!!!

[igorp]

Where did I go wrong???

If you were started with prehistoric kernel 3.4.y this is expected. On "official" images kernel remains the same. But also if you started with a bit more modern, a lot of things can go wrong from upgrade from Jessie to Buster.

Start with a clean image from https://www.armbian.com/nanopi-neo-2/

[spikerguy]

Tested Armbian on it and it worked very smoothly while the kernel used is 5.4 at the time of my test which is few months old which is an LTS release so it should be fine for long time.

Keep up the good work armbian. Problem with ubuntu is there is no way to have all the apps from one repo, example neofetch needs to have a separate ppa added to the base installation to be added.

I built Manjaro ARM for NanoPi Neo Plus2 and added support for it in official built tools so users can build it themselve with few commands.

I will also post a server image here soon.