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Hi Folks,
another dodgy bit with 12.1 upgrade:
1. the upgrade procedure with apt-get upgrade etc installs also the newest xbian-package-firmware, here is how it looks on my rpi after:
xbian-package-firmware 1.3
root@xbmc:~# ls -l /boot
total 11127
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18693 Nov 11 17:59 COPYING.linux
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1447 Nov 11 17:59 LICENCE.broadcom
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 582 Nov 11 17:59 README.md
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17764 Mar 5 11:58 bootcode.bin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 166 Apr 14 00:19 cmdline.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 167 Apr 13 22:33 config.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8686 Mar 5 11:58 fixup.dat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2039208 Feb 19 08:56 initramfs.gz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5669316 Feb 13 14:15 kernel.img
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3631748 Mar 5 11:58 start.elf

2. yeah, so then I reboot and...get the RLOD PI doesn't boot anymore, actually looks almost as dead... just red LED on.

3. issue is with the new firmware (?) files, replacing with following files from original 1.0a5 build makes it work again:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17764 Jan 30 11:46 bootcode.bin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8502 Jan 30 11:46 fixup.dat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3472580 Jan 30 11:46 start.elf

3a. however it seems (?) to break the xbmc 12.1 ALL audio output option I would really like to try...

4. about the only thing which is diff about my install of RPI is that I have the "/" partition moved to usb pendrive. I use this setup because new 512MB PIs have crazy sensitive sdcard readers practically dissalowing any core overclocks, you noticed the issue in:
https://github.com/xbianonpi/xbian/issues/137

any thoughts?
can sbd confirm this behaviour?
is the above only workaround you can think of? no chance going back to sd-only
something else you could propose?

thanks in advance for any replies to this.

Rgds,
B.