PowerBox pro cannot upgrade from 44.2 to 45.1

Hardware MikroTik hardware general
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Hi,

I’m trying to upgrade my PowerBox Pro from 44.2 to 45.1. Seems to download ok and performs a reboot, but after that I’m still in 44.2. The flash storage seems full (15,9mb of 16mb are used) so I cannot do that manually.

Any ideas?

Thanks

2

Is there anything about it in log?

3

hi,

no, no info in the log file for this issue.

4

You need to load the file to RAM memory, not to flash.

In files, put the file outside of flash folder. Make sure while the file is transferring, the flash memory used do not increase.

The last resource is always install it through NetInstall.

Regards.

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strange, mine did work well, albeit it was an upgrade from 44.3 to 45.1
also included flash usage to see how much free space you usually ought to have with a clean setup. this one has almost literally no config in it:

/interface bridge
add name=bridge1 protocol-mode=none
/interface ethernet
set [ find default-name=ether1 ] speed=100Mbps
set [ find default-name=ether2 ] speed=100Mbps
set [ find default-name=ether3 ] speed=100Mbps
set [ find default-name=ether4 ] speed=100Mbps
set [ find default-name=ether5 ] speed=100Mbps
set [ find default-name=sfp1 ] advertise=10M-half,10M-full,100M-half,100M-full,1000M-half,1000M-full
/interface bridge port
add bridge=bridge1 interface=ether2
add bridge=bridge1 interface=ether3
add bridge=bridge1 interface=ether4
add bridge=bridge1 interface=ether5
add bridge=bridge1 interface=ether1
/ip dhcp-client
add dhcp-options=hostname,clientid disabled=no interface=bridge1
/ip ssh
set allow-none-crypto=yes forwarding-enabled=remote strong-crypto=yes
/system clock
set time-zone-name=Europe/Budapest
/system identity
set name=1.icp
/system logging
add prefix=XXX topics=script,debug
/system routerboard settings
set auto-upgrade=yes

pbp.png

6

I did that thing with ram, but no luck. After reboot I’m still on 6.44.2. I should try net install, but that has some extra work and I don’t want to pause working my setup.

7

Well, here is mine:

[axrst@FKids0-PowerBoxPro] /system resource> print
                   uptime: 5m15s
                  version: 6.44.2 (stable)
               build-time: Apr/01/2019 12:47:57
         factory-software: 6.36
              free-memory: 107.4MiB
             total-memory: 128.0MiB
                      cpu: MIPS 74Kc V5.0
                cpu-count: 1
            cpu-frequency: 800MHz
                 cpu-load: 10%
           free-hdd-space: 80.0KiB
          total-hdd-space: 16.0MiB
  write-sect-since-reboot: 132
         write-sect-total: 193226
               bad-blocks: 0%
        architecture-name: mipsbe
               board-name: PowerBox Pro
                 platform: MikroTik

And the files:

[axrst@FKids0-PowerBoxPro] /file> print
 # NAME                                        TYPE                                              SIZE CREATION-TIME       
 0 flash                                       disk                                                   jan/01/1970 03:00:07
 1 flash/skins                                 directory                                              jan/01/1970 03:00:08
 2 flash/user-manager                          directory                                              oct/03/2018 01:15:11
 3 flash/user-manager/sqldb                    file                                           80.0KiB oct/03/2018 01:22:26
 4 flash/user-manager/logsqldb                 file                                            6.0KiB oct/03/2018 01:15:14

Where did the flash space gone? Only 80KBs free. Is this (maybe) a reason for the upgrade miss-function??

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My guess is that you’ll have to perform netinstall.

Make sure you create and save configuration export (the text version of it) before doing it. I also suggest that you start configuring it starting from default setup … specially firewall settings … and only add needed functionality (not just blindingly copy over the old config).