Hi everyone,
I'm currently running OpenWrt 21.02.3 (r16554-1d4dea6d4f) on my NanoPi R4S and would like to upgrade it to a more recent version.
I tried doing it via the SD card method but didn't have any success. I'm looking for the simplest and most reliable way to perform the upgrade. If anyone can share the steps or point me in the right direction, I would really appreciate it!
Thanks in advance for your help.
Your other thread says R5S, which one have you got ?
https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=commit;h=c06a71f0b3fae00dbd402840ea6e3b532c35b0da
Not familiar with the pi but I'd sysupgrade thru openwrt luci gui to 24.10.0
And read the NanoPi R4S page, Read the upgrade instructions.
Hello,
I own a nanopi r4s and usually, what i do is burn the new image on a different sd card, export the config archive on the current running version, turn off the device, replace the sd and then boot it back up. Then i just upload the archive.
I am using this method because having 2 micro-sd cards actually helps if something goes wrong with the new image.
Using sysupgrade is also an option but do check the requirements before that... However, if there are issues post install it will be too late depending on the issue.
I tried to upgrade via sysupgrade without success. I dont know how to do it via dd command, any suggestion?
thanks
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FriendlyWrt 24.10.0, r28427-6df0e3d02a
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root@FriendlyWrt:~# cd /tmp/
root@FriendlyWrt:/tmp# wget https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.1/targe ts/rockchip/armv8/openwrt-24.10.1-rockchip-armv8-friendlyarm_nanopi-r5s-ext4-sys upgrade.img.gz
--2025-06-15 08:36:59-- https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.1/targets/ rockchip/armv8/openwrt-24.10.1-rockchip-armv8-friendlyarm_nanopi-r5s-ext4-sysupg rade.img.gz
Resolving downloads.openwrt.org... 151.101.222.132, 2a04:4e42:34::644
Connecting to downloads.openwrt.org|151.101.222.132|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 9665624 (9.2M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: 'openwrt-24.10.1-rockchip-armv8-friendlyarm_nanopi-r5s-ext4-sysupgrad e.img.gz'
openwrt-24.10.1-roc 100%[===================>] 9.22M 57.2MB/s in 0.2s
2025-06-15 08:36:59 (57.2 MB/s) - 'openwrt-24.10.1-rockchip-armv8-friendlyarm_na nopi-r5s-ext4-sysupgrade.img.gz' saved [9665624/9665624]
root@FriendlyWrt:/tmp# sysupgrade /tmp/openwrt-24.10.1-rockchip-armv8-friendlyar m_nanopi-r5s-ext4-sysupgrade.img.gz
Sun Jun 15 08:37:16 CST 2025 upgrade: Device friendlyelec,nanopi-r5s not support ed by this image
Sun Jun 15 08:37:16 CST 2025 upgrade: Supported devices: friendlyarm,nanopi-r5s
Sun Jun 15 08:37:16 CST 2025 upgrade: Reading partition table from bootdisk...
Sun Jun 15 08:37:17 CST 2025 upgrade: Reading partition table from image...
Partition layout has changed. Full image will be written.
Image check failed.
root@FriendlyWrt:/tmp# wget https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.1/targe ts/rockchip/armv8/openwrt-24.10.1-rockchip-armv8-friendlyarm_nanopi-r5s-squashfs -sysupgrade.img.gz
--2025-06-15 08:37:46-- https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.1/targets/ rockchip/armv8/openwrt-24.10.1-rockchip-armv8-friendlyarm_nanopi-r5s-squashfs-sy supgrade.img.gz
Resolving downloads.openwrt.org... 151.101.222.132, 2a04:4e42:34::644
Connecting to downloads.openwrt.org|151.101.222.132|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 8762741 (8.4M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: 'openwrt-24.10.1-rockchip-armv8-friendlyarm_nanopi-r5s-squashfs-sysup grade.img.gz'
openwrt-24.10.1-roc 100%[===================>] 8.36M 2.71MB/s in 3.1s
2025-06-15 08:37:49 (2.71 MB/s) - 'openwrt-24.10.1-rockchip-armv8-friendlyarm_na nopi-r5s-squashfs-sysupgrade.img.gz' saved [8762741/8762741]
root@FriendlyWrt:/tmp# sysupgrade /tmp/openwrt-24.10.1-rockchip-armv8-friendlyar m_nanopi-r5s-squashfs-sysupgrade.img.gz
Sun Jun 15 08:38:15 CST 2025 upgrade: Device friendlyelec,nanopi-r5s not support ed by this image
Sun Jun 15 08:38:15 CST 2025 upgrade: Supported devices: friendlyarm,nanopi-r5s
Sun Jun 15 08:38:15 CST 2025 upgrade: Reading partition table from bootdisk...
Sun Jun 15 08:38:15 CST 2025 upgrade: Reading partition table from image...
Partition layout has changed. Full image will be written.
Image check failed.
root@FriendlyWrt:/tmp#