Upgrading to 5.21

I thought it would be helpful to note a couple of pitfalls when upgrading a Pandaboard ES from 5.19 to 5.21.

Download the latest rom – it is 5.21 even though it says 5.19

Copy the new rom image ‘riscos’ into !Boot.Loader (assuming you have a dual or triple partition SD card)

Switch off the pandaboard (don’t shut down).

Start up the Pandaboard – you should get the error ‘No support for 5.20 please reload HardDisc4’

Download HardDisc4 – the ‘util’ version is not currently working (gives error message part way through unzipping) but the tar version is OK.

Copy your existing !Boot directory into ‘OldBoot’ (just in case).

Set copy options to Verbose and Force.

Copy the new contents of HardDisc4 onto the SD card overwriting any out of date bits.

Reboot.

All your previously added apps should still work.

You should now have all the latest bits and pieces that you have been waiting for.

If you have upgraded from SparkFS (reead only) to the full version then be careful not to lose it (the read only version will be copied over it).

Sound seems to play a little bit too fast now (was OK in the 27-Sep-12 5.19 rom I used before) but otherwise there seems no problem (CTRL-SHIFT-f12 still causes a hang but that seems to be a hardware problem rather than a software one – pity)…

Thanks for this info.

But where is the stable release 5.20?

Being tested. Development builds will now therefore be 5.21 (requiring HardDisc4 to be updated for them to run).

A bit more information:

To upgrade your disc image from pre-5.20 to the latest one:

Start up with the new ROM – you should get the error 
‘No support for 5.20 please reload HardDisc4’

Download HardDisc4 – the ‘util’ version is not currently working 
(gives error message part way through unzipping) but the tar version is OK.

Copy your existing !Boot and Utilities directories into ‘OldBoot’ (just in case).

Set copy options to Verbose and Force.

Copy the new contents of HardDisc4 onto the SD card 
- this will overwrite any out of date bits.
[if you have !SparkFS read/write then you will
need to copy that back again from OldBoot]

Run the obey file here:

delete $.!Boot.!Sprites
delete $.!Boot.!Sprites11
delete $.!Boot.!Sprites22
delete $.!Boot.Choices.Boot.PreDesk.!+Resource
delete $.!Boot.Choices.Boot.PreDesk.~SetupMimeMap
delete $.!Boot.Choices.Boot.PreDesk.NewLook
delete $.!Boot.Resources.!+Resource.*
delete $.!Boot.Resources.!Fonts.!Sprites
delete $.!Boot.Resources.!Fonts.!Sprites11
delete $.!Boot.Resources.!Fonts.!Sprites22
delete $.!Boot.Resources.!Internet.!Sprites
delete $.!Boot.Resources.!Internet.!Sprites11
delete $.!Boot.Resources.!Internet.!Sprites22
delete $.!Boot.Resources.!PrintDefs.!Sprites
delete $.!Boot.Resources.!PrintDefs.!Sprites11
delete $.!Boot.Resources.!PrintDefs.!Sprites22
delete $.!Boot.Resources.!PrintDefs.Printers.Apple.LW16.!Boot.Choices.Printers.ps.Feeds.Apple.Duple0000444
delete $.!Boot.Resources.!PrintDefs.Printers.Apple.LW16.!Boot.Choices.Printers.ps.Feeds.Apple.Duple000071
delete $.!Boot.Resources.!PrintDefs.Printers.Apple.LW16.!Boot.Choices.Printers.ps.Feeds.Apple.NoDup0000444
delete $.!Boot.Resources.!PrintDefs.Printers.Apple.LW16.!Boot.Choices.Printers.ps.Feeds.Apple.NoDup000071
delete $.!Boot.Resources.!Scrap.!Sprites
delete $.!Boot.Resources.!Scrap.!Sprites11
delete $.!Boot.Resources.!Scrap.!Sprites22
delete $.!Boot.Resources.!System.!Sprites
delete $.!Boot.Resources.!System.!Sprites11
delete $.!Boot.Resources.!System.!Sprites22
delete $.!Boot.Resources.!System.310.Modules.DDT
delete $.!Boot.Resources.!System.360.Modules.Installer
delete $.!Boot.Resources.!Unicode.!Sprites
delete $.!Boot.Resources.!Unicode.!Sprites11
delete $.!Boot.Resources.!Unicode.!Sprites22
delete $.!Boot.Resources.!Unicode.!Sprites23
delete $.!Boot.Resources.Configure.Monitors.Acorn.AKF11/12
delete $.!Boot.Resources.Configure.Monitors.Acorn.AKF30/40
delete $.!Boot.Resources.Configure.Monitors.Fujitsu.Fujitsu_L22W2
delete $.!Boot.Resources.Configure.Sprites
delete $.!Boot.Resources.Configure.Sprites22
delete $.!Boot.Resources.Configure.Textures.T10
delete $.!Boot.Resources.Configure.Textures.T10L
delete $.!Boot.Resources.Configure.Textures.T11
delete $.!Boot.Resources.Configure.Textures.T11L
delete $.!Boot.Resources.Configure.Textures.T12
delete $.!Boot.Resources.Configure.Textures.T12L
delete $.!Boot.Resources.Configure.Textures.T8
delete $.!Boot.Resources.Configure.Textures.T8L
delete $.!Boot.Resources.Configure.Textures.T9
delete $.!Boot.Resources.Configure.Textures.T9L
delete $.!Boot.Resources.Configure.Tools
delete $.!Boot.Resources.Configure.Tools22
delete $.!Boot.RO500Hook.Boot.PreDesk.!+Resource
delete $.!Boot.RO500Hook.Boot.PreDesk.~SetupMimeMap
delete $.!Boot.RO500Hook.Boot.PreDesk.NewLook
delete $.!Boot.RO500Hook.Res.Configure.!KbdSetup.!Help
delete $.!Boot.RO510Hook.Boot.PreDesk.!+Resource
delete $.!Boot.RO510Hook.Boot.PreDesk.~SetupMimeMap
delete $.!Boot.RO510Hook.Boot.PreDesk.NewLook
delete $.!Boot.Utils.NetChoices
delete $.!Boot.Utils.VProtect
delete $.Apps.!CloseUp.!Sprites
delete $.Apps.!CloseUp.!Sprites22
delete $.Apps.!Maestro.!Sprites
delete $.Apps.!Maestro.!Sprites11
delete $.Apps.!Maestro.!Sprites22
delete $.Apps.!Squash.!Sprites
delete $.Apps.!Squash.!Sprites11
delete $.Apps.!Squash.!Sprites22
delete $.Printing.!FontPrint.!Sprites
delete $.Printing.!FontPrint.!Sprites22
delete $.Printing.!PrintEdit.!Sprites
delete $.Printing.!PrintEdit.!Sprites22
delete $.Printing.!Printers.Modules.RemPrnMsgs
delete $.Sound.*
delete $.Utilities.!ChangeFSI.!Sprites
delete $.Utilities.!ChangeFSI.!Sprites11
delete $.Utilities.!ChangeFSI.!Sprites22
delete $.Utilities.!T1ToFont.!Sprites
delete $.Utilities.!T1ToFont.!Sprites11
delete $.Utilities.!T1ToFont.!Sprites22
delete $.Utilities.500.*
delete $.Utilities.Caution.!HForm.!Sprites
delete $.Utilities.Caution.!HForm.!Sprites11
delete $.Utilities.Caution.!HForm.!Sprites22
delete $.Utilities.Caution.!ResetBoot.!Sprites
delete $.Utilities.Caution.!ResetBoot.!Sprites11
delete $.Utilities.Caution.!ResetBoot.!Sprites22
delete $.Utilities.USB-Mass.*

and that will get rid of the redundant stuff in the disc image that is no longer present or needed on 5.2x