# Problems during upgrade to 2.5.8-1 - cannot boot **URL:** \ **Category:** Installation\ **Tags:** openhab2, upgrade\ **Created:** [August 24, 2020, 6:45pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/problems-during-upgrade-to-2-5-8-1-cannot-boot/104089 "2020-08-24T18:45:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![paulo9999](https://community.openhab.org/user_avatar/community.openhab.org/paulo9999/32/58366_2.png) [@paulo9999](https://community.openhab.org/u/paulo9999)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2020, 6:45pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/problems-during-upgrade-to-2-5-8-1-cannot-boot/104089/1 "2020-08-24T18:45:36Z")
Platform information: - Hardware: Raspberry Pi 3 model B rev 1.2 - OS: Linux 5.4.51-v7+ - Java Runtime Environment: 1.8.0\_265 - openHAB version: 2.5.8-1 Hello, I’d like to share what happened during the upgrade to 2.5.8-1. It was to be a normal upgrade, I used openhabian-config as usual. But during upgrade process the system halted and after that I lost control of openhab, since the command line didn’t appear again. so I physically shutted down the RPI. But now I’m unable to reboot it… I looked at the files, they appear intact. Is there any way to restore the boot files without losing my data in it?? I’d really appreciate any help. Paulo ---
**Author:** ![Wolfgang\_S](https://community.openhab.org/user_avatar/community.openhab.org/wolfgang_s/32/52719_2.png) [@Wolfgang\_S](https://community.openhab.org/u/Wolfgang_S)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2020, 7:05pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/problems-during-upgrade-to-2-5-8-1-cannot-boot/104089/2 "2020-08-24T19:05:03Z")
So you have a monitor connected to the system? What is the content of the message during booting? ---
**Author:** ![paulo9999](https://community.openhab.org/user_avatar/community.openhab.org/paulo9999/32/58366_2.png) [@paulo9999](https://community.openhab.org/u/paulo9999)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2020, 7:09pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/problems-during-upgrade-to-2-5-8-1-cannot-boot/104089/3 "2020-08-24T19:09:36Z")
It’s halted in the rainbow screen… ---
**Author:** ![Bruce\_Osborne](https://community.openhab.org/user_avatar/community.openhab.org/bruce_osborne/32/38531_2.png) [@Bruce\_Osborne](https://community.openhab.org/u/Bruce_Osborne)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2020, 7:39pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/problems-during-upgrade-to-2-5-8-1-cannot-boot/104089/4 "2020-08-24T19:39:09Z")
Could be a corrupt SD Card. You could try to re-image & restore your configuration backup. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfgang\_S](https://community.openhab.org/user_avatar/community.openhab.org/wolfgang_s/32/52719_2.png) [@Wolfgang\_S](https://community.openhab.org/u/Wolfgang_S)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2020, 7:45pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/problems-during-upgrade-to-2-5-8-1-cannot-boot/104089/5 "2020-08-24T19:45:29Z")
Here is a loooong detailed article about reasons why Pi might not boot: > **[STICKY: Is your Pi not booting? (The Boot Problems Sticky) - Raspberry Pi Forums](https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=58151)** ---
**Author:** ![NCO](https://community.openhab.org/user_avatar/community.openhab.org/nco/32/55938_2.png) [@NCO](https://community.openhab.org/u/NCO)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2020, 10:16am UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/problems-during-upgrade-to-2-5-8-1-cannot-boot/104089/6 "2020-09-14T10:16:53Z")
Did you find the root cause? I seem to have a similar issue: > [@Total failure after upgrade to 2.5.8-1](https://community.openhab.org/t/total-failure-after-upgrade-to-2-5-8-1/104999): > > I am running the lastest openhabian on a raspberry pi 3 B+ and upgraded OH yesterday to 2.5.8-1. The problem now is, that it does not start up anymore (details below). The raspi is not even available via ssh after oh tried to start. Whenever I restart after power down, the raspi is available for a short time using ssh. When I log in directly and stop OH from starting, the ssh connection is stable. when I let OH start, the raspi will not be available anymore after a while. The log below sho… ---
**Author:** ![paulo9999](https://community.openhab.org/user_avatar/community.openhab.org/paulo9999/32/58366_2.png) [@paulo9999](https://community.openhab.org/u/paulo9999)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2020, 12:34pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/problems-during-upgrade-to-2-5-8-1-cannot-boot/104089/7 "2020-09-14T12:34:09Z")
I unfortunately didn’t find the cause, I could only solve is making a new SD card and restoring my backups… I think from now on I’ll always make a backup before going to a new OH version… ---
**Author:** ![NCO](https://community.openhab.org/user_avatar/community.openhab.org/nco/32/55938_2.png) [@NCO](https://community.openhab.org/u/NCO)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2020, 1:22pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/problems-during-upgrade-to-2-5-8-1-cannot-boot/104089/8 "2020-09-14T13:22:44Z")
I expected you to say this. Actually I try whatever I can to avoid this… Thanks for your quick response, though. ---
**Author:** ![Daniel\_OH](https://community.openhab.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Daniel\_OH](https://community.openhab.org/u/Daniel_OH)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2021, 7:03pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/problems-during-upgrade-to-2-5-8-1-cannot-boot/104089/9 "2021-01-29T19:03:53Z")
- Hardware: Raspberry Pi 3 model B rev 1.2 - OS: Linux 5.4.51-v7+ - Java Runtime Environment: 1.8.0\_265 - openHAB version: 2.5.8-1 I made a clone from the SD Card via openhabian cinfig tool. After that I made an update via openhabian config. After the update I made a reboot but it doesn´t boot. Now it seems, both cards do not boot and I have no other backup (only the red led is on). The problem is, there have been a a lot of data on the pi, (Influg and rrdj4). Is it somehow possible to get these data and start from scratch, because I think, the cards will never boot on the pi. BR Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Wolfgang\_S](https://community.openhab.org/user_avatar/community.openhab.org/wolfgang_s/32/52719_2.png) [@Wolfgang\_S](https://community.openhab.org/u/Wolfgang_S)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2021, 7:15pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/problems-during-upgrade-to-2-5-8-1-cannot-boot/104089/10 "2021-01-29T19:15:00Z")
Try to mount the card on a linux system. Once the system partition is mounted you can create a backup of the data. ---
**Author:** ![Daniel\_OH](https://community.openhab.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Daniel\_OH](https://community.openhab.org/u/Daniel_OH)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2021, 7:59pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/problems-during-upgrade-to-2-5-8-1-cannot-boot/104089/11 "2021-01-29T19:59:03Z")
Thank you Wolfgang Problem is, I dont have a running linux system (which would be possible with the pi lying around) but how do I mount the sd card? Or woud it also be possible on an other running openhabian system? BR ---
**Author:** ![Wolfgang\_S](https://community.openhab.org/user_avatar/community.openhab.org/wolfgang_s/32/52719_2.png) [@Wolfgang\_S](https://community.openhab.org/u/Wolfgang_S)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2021, 10:35pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/problems-during-upgrade-to-2-5-8-1-cannot-boot/104089/12 "2021-01-29T22:35:44Z")
> [@Daniel\_OH](#): > > Or woud it also be possible on an other running openhabian system? That should work if you have a sd card reader / slot. What you also could do is to use a linux e.g. Ubuntu live system e.g. booted from DVD or stick on your PC or labtop.