On 2023/10/26 10:37, Anders Andersson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 10:06 AM Stuart Henderson > <stu.li...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > > > > On 2023-10-26, harold felton <hfeltonad...@hfelton.com> wrote: > > > i have a pcengines apu4 which has been running 7.1-stable with all updates > > > just fine... i had been avoiding doing an upgrade - so was thinking to > > > reinstall based on 7.4-release this week... i was unable to do an install > > > from the bsd.rd (for 7.4) - and have bisected the issue to somewhere > > > around > > > the 9th or 10th of september... > > > > Can you try updating to 7.3 first? (or at least updating the boot loader > > to the version that was included in 7.3). > > > > I'm not really sue what you mean by a "reinstall", but I did a clean > install of 7.4 on my apu4 just a few days ago, and everything just > worked out of the box - including the serial console which was > correctly autodetected. > > At a glance it appears we have the same bios version.
A fresh install (for example, from PXE or img file on USB) will have a recent boot loader. Updating by booting new bsd.rd from a 7.1 installation (skipping two version updates) uses an old boot loader, which may possibly not boot a new kernel.
