On Tue, 23 Feb 2021 00:07:07 -0300, Francisco Fuentes wrote:

> El 22-02-2021 a las 18:19, Martin Gregorie escribió:
>> On Mon, 22 Feb 2021 17:40:08 -0300, Francisco Fuentes wrote:
>>
>>> Do you know what's going on? I booted the last SD card with a monitor
>>> and I couldn't find any strange errors. I have to say that the adapter
>>> is not faulty because I flashed a backup I made of the SD card with
>>> Stretch and it's just fine.
>>>
>> I have an old (512MB) Pi 2B thats running Buster with no problems
>> except that the SD card is now 16GB rather than the original 4GB. Its
>> always been run headless, though I've never tried using wifi with it.
>>
>> The difference may be that I've always done in-situ upgrades by editing
>> /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/raspi.list to
>> successively change the version name: wheezy->jessie->stretch->buster
>> in these files, and then:
>> - making sure the old distro is fully up the date - running "sudo
>> apt-get update"
>> - "sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade"
>> - rebooting into the new version
>>
>> I handled resizing the SD card by:
>> - using 'parted' to create and format the partitions on the new card -
>> using dd to copy each partition from the old to the new card.
>>
>> The boot partition must be FAT32 and the filing system should be ext4.
>>
>> I've migrated the system to a bigger SD card twice. The boot partition
>> stayed at its original size from 'wheesy' to 'stretch', but this wasn't
>> large enough for 'buster' now that the kernel modules needed by Pi 2,
>> Pi 3 and Pi 4 are all part of the same distro, so I increased it to 1GB
>> for 'buster'.
>>
>> I've always used the rest of the SD card for the ext4 filing system.
>>
>> HTH: all these upgrades and SD card migrations have 'just worked' for
>> me.
>>
>>
>>
>>
> I meant, it upgrades successfully but it stopped working with wifi
> (which for me is the only real way I can use it) whether I update or
> install it from scratch.


OK - it wasn't clear whether you'd upgraded it or merely dropped in the
latest partition images from the Raspbian Foundation.


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