Upgrading from MKS-PI images

Contents:

Unsupported images

  • Original Sovol/Makerbase image
    • Upgrading from armbian-buster based images is not supported.
    • You need to start from a bookworm based image.

Supported images

Images based on MKS-PI

Make an image of your eMMC card before trying to upgrade!

The next steps need to be done as root. Execute

sudo su
cd

And when you are done, execute exit to switch back to the default user (or do a reboot).

  • Switch to rolling repository
    • Execute sed -i "s/apt\.armbian\.com/beta.armbian.com/" /etc/apt/sources.list.d/armbian.list
  • Allow board updates
    • Execute apt-mark unhold armbian-bsp-cli-mkspi-current armbian-config armbian-firmware armbian-plymouth-theme armbian-zsh base-files linux-dtb-current-rockchip64 linux-headers-current-rockchip64 linux-image-current-rockchip64 linux-u-boot-mkspi-current
  • Update board packages (and others)
    • Execute apt update && apt -y upgrade
  • Replace BSP (board-support-package) and bootloader package
    • Execute apt -y remove armbian-bsp-cli-mkspi-current
    • Execute apt -y install armbian-bsp-cli-mksklipad50-current linux-u-boot-mksklipad50-current
  • Force updating bootloader
    • Execute sed -i "/^FORCE_UBOOT_UPDATE/ s/=.*/=yes/" /etc/armbian-release
    • Execute dpkg-reconfigure linux-u-boot-mksklipad50-current
    • Execute sed -i "/^FORCE_UBOOT_UPDATE/ s/=.*/=/" /etc/armbian-release
  • Load rk805 module at boot (makes status-LEDs work)
    • Execute echo "pinctrl-rk805" >> /etc/modules
  • Clean up old DTB workaround
    • This will throw some error messages. Simply ignore them.
    • Execute apt -y remove klipad50-dtb-fix
  • Reboot
    • Execute reboot

Images based on pre-release MKS-KLIPAD50

Make an image of your eMMC card before trying to upgrade!

The next steps need to be done as root. Execute

sudo su
cd

And when you are done, execute exit to switch back to the default user (or do a reboot).

This only applies to images downloaded from

https://github.com/torte71/armbian-mksklipad50/releases

(Klipad50 images downloaded from armbian.com do not need any changes.)

  • Switch to rolling repository
    • Execute sed -i "s/apt\.armbian\.com/beta.armbian.com/" /etc/apt/sources.list.d/armbian.list
  • Allow board updates
    • Execute apt-mark unhold armbian-bsp-cli-mkspi-current armbian-config armbian-firmware armbian-plymouth-theme armbian-zsh base-files linux-dtb-current-rockchip64 linux-headers-current-rockchip64 linux-image-current-rockchip64 linux-u-boot-mkspi-current
  • Update board packages (and others)
    • Execute apt update && apt -y upgrade
  • Reboot
    • Execute reboot