upgrade went OK on lot of different devices (CCR 1009, 1036, SXT5, SXT2, LTE6, SXT AC) except on x86.
We have one Alix with CF card.
It was running on 6.49 before upgrade to 7.1
After upgrade it wont boot and CF card is not readable by Netinstall in order to backup key
After formating card and reinstaling router OS 6.49 it works again.
I have tested once more upgrade to 7.1 and it once more broken x86 and it wont boot.
First time i used Quick set -->> check for upgrade
if i copy RO npk file for x86 and reboot it wont upgrade.
also netinstaling v7.1 didnt work.
dear Mikrotik support can you help me with restoring my level 4 licence?
Before upgrading x86 ALWAYS make full image of the card/usb flash/HDD/etc. as a backup as license ID is stored there somewhere (I think partition table or boot sector or something similar).
Unlike for HW routers, this ID is partially randomly generated when installing ROS on a blank disk, meaning if you wipe it, it WILL BE DIFFERENT next time… and your paid license goes poof.
At least on x86 it’s really easy to just clone/image the disk to file as a backup… so always do that!
I just tried to upgrade an x86 from 6.49.5,6,7 (Yes tried on clones on all three) Upon reboot they will post but not boot. These was clones of one of my x86 core routers seeing as none worked I will be holding off on the x86 upgrade and staying on ver 6 until this test passes. As I seem to have the same problem as this post even though i was trying to upgrade to ros7.6. Is there any time line of when this upgrade will be stable.
Note I have done this upgrade on Arm, Arm64 CHR, and MIPSBE So far this has worked every time since 7.3 and newer save when a known stated bugs public in release files. Are we dealing with a bad boot sector or another problem?