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(23rd Feb, 2014 10:51 PM)Lucifer Wrote:  So ... i found how to upgrade ...

1. Flash beta 2
2. boot and wait for partition resize.
3. SSH login
4. Exit xbian-config
5. $ sudo -s
6. # service xbmc stop
7. # apt-get update
8. # apt-get install xbian-package-kernel
9. # apt-get install dpkg
10. # apt-get install xbian-package-firmware
11. # reboot
12. Wait for SSH service to start
13. Repeat steps 3 to 5.
14. # dpkg --clear-avail
15. # apt-get update
16. # apt-get upgrade
17. # apt-get dist-upgrade
18. # apt-get autoremove
19. # apt-get install (the last held back package (CEC)).
20. # apt-get autoremove
21. # reboot

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Hi Lucifer,

I tried the upgrade method that you detailed in these steps. I have tried this a couple of times now, each time reflashing my SD card back to Xbian 1.0 Beta 2 from the Windows installer if it broke, but still with no success.

I found that after doing apt-get dist-upgrade in step #17, my Pi would do an automatic reboot. Every time this happens, it will come back up in the recovery boot console and at that point I have no idea what part of the upgrade has broken the boot process. But I get the usual "cannot read device /dev/mmcblk02" error.

Along the way I also had the issue where it would refuse to complete apt-get upgrade due to conflicting python2.7 libraries, but I was able to get past this with a force install "apt-get -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-all" upgrade "

Just thought I'd share my experiences and wondered if there are any updates to the instructions on how to get from Xbian 1.0 Beta 2 to the latest RC1?