Initial setup with /boot/firmware/inital.zip

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I just set up a new openHABian system on a Raspi 4 with 4GB, new SD card.

And wanted to share my experience:

  • According to the documentation / tutorial, I activated the option to restore my backup:
# the file needs to be a zip archive created from openhab-cli backup and placed
# in the directory of the first SD partition
# ATTENTION: keep /boot/firmware as the directory if you provide an absolute path
  • After I wrote the SD card, a drive “bootfs” was mounted on my Windows Laptop as drive D. So I assumed this is the boot partition. Therefore I created a directory “boot” in it and in that a directory “firmware”. In that I put my backup zip file and renamed it to initial.zip. Thus, the file was at (Windows-Path):
    D:\boot\firmware\initial.zip
    I also correctly removed the SD card.
  • Now during the setup of the system, the backup could not be found. What did I do wrong?
  • Restore from the backup folder triggered by openhabian-config went without problems.
  • I wanted to directly have 5.0 M4. This is not possible initially, would it be worth spending an option at openhabian.conf to install latest release / latest milestone / latest snapshot?
2

You should not have created boot but should have placed the .zip in the existing firmware folder.
Also set debug=maximum in openhabian.conf to generate a meaningful debug log.

3

Sorry, there was no firmware folder. Otherwise I would have seen it und would have done it. Could that have something to do with what was mounted in Windows? Is “bootfs” the right partition?

4

then create it (I mean firmware, not boot)

if that does not work put initial.zip right on D:\ root

5

Installation guide says currently:

ATTENTION: keep /boot/firmware as the directory if you provide an absolute path

So I would propose to add:

So use the existing firmware folder in the boot partition or create it and place the backup file named initial.zip in that folder.

Maybe that makes it a tiny bit clearer. I have to admit that I could have read somewhere else that the path of openhabian.conf is /boot/openhabian.conf. But I didn’t and therefore I missed that the partition “bootfs” in Windows corresponds to /boot/ in Linux. Maybe that could also be mentioned somewhere. Then it is idiot-proof :slight_smile: .

6

I don’t know which Installation Guide you are referring to, but then help with improving that yourself please. Create a Pull Request. There’s a small link at the bottom of the docs web page to do that.

7

OK, done:

Can you approve?

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