Updating kernel from command line without trashing SD card

[Stephen Hewitson]

Hi,

I have a Beaglebone Black running kernel 3.8 (I think - I don't have access to the BBB at the moment, so this is from memory). 

I am using this with a cape to drive a custom display. 

I am pretty sure it's booting from SD card, which has multiple partitions (one labelled rootfs and not visible to windows, and one that windows can access). Both partitions are accessible when I plug into my linux VM. 

The SD card is configured such that the display is all set on boot (not really sure how this happens), and I can call scripts that are on the FAT partition by SSHing into the BBB and running from the shell. 

There's a lot I don't understand about the configuration of the SD card, but as it works, I'm not that fussed. 

However, I now want to migrate this over to the Beaglebone Black Wireless and I'm having real difficulty. 

My thoughts are that I need to upgrade the kernel to a version closer to 4.4, but I can't seem to find a method of doing this without completely trashing the SD card. 

If this makes sense, can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks

[Mark A. Yoder]

Try this:

bone$ cd /opt/scripts/tools

bone$ git pull

bone$ sudo ./update_kernel.sh --bone-kernel

2020-08-24 10:25:12 URL:https://rcn-ee.com/repos/latest/buster-armhf/LATEST-omap-psp [223/223] -> "LATEST-omap-psp" [1]

-----------------------------

Kernel Options:

ABI:1 LTS44 4.4.145-bone23

ABI:1 LTS49 4.9.178-bone15

ABI:1 EXPERIMENTAL 5.7.2-bone9

ABI:1 LTS414 4.14.192-bone38

ABI:1 LTS419 4.19.135-bone54

ABI:1 LTS54 5.4.58-bone33

ABI:1 STABLE 5.7.16-bone18

ABI:1 TESTING 5.8.2-bone13

-----------------------------

Kernel version options:

-----------------------------

LTS414: --lts-4_14

LTS419: --lts-4_19

LTS54: --lts-5_4

STABLE: --stable

TESTING: --testing

-----------------------------

Please pass one of the above kernel options to update_kernel.sh

You can now pick which kernel you want to update to.  

bone$ sudo ./update_kernel.sh --lts-4_14

--Mark

[Stephen Hewitson]

Hi Mark,

I tried the above, but get the following error:

root@beaglebone:~# cd /opt/scripts/tools

root@beaglebone:/opt/scripts/tools# git pull

Already up-to-date.

root@beaglebone:/opt/scripts/tools# sudo ./update_kernel.sh --bone-kernel

syncing local clock to pool.ntp.org

info: checking archive

GnuTLS: A TLS fatal alert has been received.

Unable to establish SSL connection.

Seems like there's more problems...

[Mark A. Yoder]

Hmmm.....  I haven't seen that one before.  Maybe a

bone$ sudo apt update

bone$ sudo apt dist-upgrade

is needed.

--Mark

[Robert Nelson]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 12:27 PM Stephen Hewitson
<steaksa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> I tried the above, but get the following error:
>
> root@beaglebone:~# cd /opt/scripts/tools
> root@beaglebone:/opt/scripts/tools# git pull
> Already up-to-date.
> root@beaglebone:/opt/scripts/tools# sudo ./update_kernel.sh --bone-kernel
> syncing local clock to pool.ntp.org
> info: checking archive
> GnuTLS: A TLS fatal alert has been received.
> Unable to establish SSL connection.
>
> Seems like there's more problems...

You can try:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ca-certificates

But considering the script fell back to pinging pool.ntp.org, you're
on a really really really old Root File System..

Regards,

--
Robert Nelson
https://rcn-ee.com/

[steaksa...@gmail.com]

Hi Robert,

apt-get update threw a few problems including:

Err http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/main armel Packages

  404  Not Found [IP: 151.101.0.204 80]

Err http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy/main armel Packages

  404  Not Found [IP: 64.50.233.100 80]

Then apt-get install ca-certificates threw:

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

The following packages will be upgraded:

  ca-certificates

1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 269 not upgraded.

Need to get 210 kB of archives.

After this operation, 98.3 kB of additional disk space will be used.

WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!

  ca-certificates

Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y

Err http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates/main ca-certificates all 20130119+deb7u2

  404  Not Found [IP: 151.101.192.204 80]

Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/ca-certificates/ca-certificates_20130119+deb7u2_all.deb  404  Not Found [IP: 151.101.192.204 80]

E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

If I run uname, this is the response...

Linux beaglebone 3.8.13-bone50 #1 SMP Fri Jan 19 13:52:32 CET 2018 armv7l GNU/Linux

[Robert Nelson]

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianWheezy

2018-06-01: End of security updates (i.e End of life. The distribution
is moved archive). (press release)

Sorry, wheezy is EOL, it's got moved to the archive server..

Change everything in /etc/apt/source.list

http://archive.debian.org/debian/

[steaksa...@gmail.com]

Thanks for that Robert. 
I'll have a look at this over the next few days.