RouterOS 5.2 to Current

RouterOS General
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Hi,

I have many routers that are in need of updating most range from 5.20 to 5.26 and I would like to bring them to current remotely. Is there any known issues that people have come across trying to complete this. I ask because when I loaded an npk file on to a RB2011 and rebooted it bricked. I would get activity light on what ever ports were connected then after about 30 seconds all 10 lights would flash like it was rebooting again.

I tried to netinstall the legacy 5.26 but it would not take. I was able to eventually netinstall 6.42.3 and the router is alive. I then tried to downgrade back to 5.26 (since there was no 5.20 available) and it would not take.

The router I was testing on was a customer router sent in for testing upgrade paths and possible problems. If I would have done this in the field I would of been in a bad situation.

I wanted to downgrade and possible do a stepped upgrade where I moved through different versions of 5.2x and get to 6.x and hopefully jump from there to 6.42.3+ or maybe default the router and try the upgrade directly from 5.20 again

Any advice or suggestions on how I might be able to successfully update these remote access only routers with out bricking them. Netinstalling is not an option as there is no way to take the sites down for more then few minutes to actually apply the updates.

Only options available is to scp the npk files and reboot. Winbox and other access are not available.

Kind Regards

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Did I post this in the wrong section of the forum to receive help ?

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Yes, it bricks. I had the same exact issues in many Mikrotik platforms. Most people have recommended netinstall but it is not very practical in many installations. The only remotely way I found, was to first upgrade from 5.26 to bugfix and then to current. It worked for all my installations. I had an issue with the space bug and had to do a factory defaults and then through the rsc as a final step but I think this issue is now fixed with latest current.

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Thank you fore the replies. I will look into stepping up to the bug fix version first and then to current

Kind Regards

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it looks like using the 5.26 version on the archives was not a bug fix version or something as the same problems occur.

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You should use version 6.40.8 bugfix and then update to last stable.
With 5.25 check for updates provides 6.40.8.

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Hi,

Thank you for the reply. I think I found this same solution last night. I ended up using the /system package update> check-for-updates and this went to 6.40.8 and then ran the command again and it brought it to current. I am really kicking myself for not knowing about this option sooner as it appears to be a great way to update vs scp of the .npk file and rebooting.

Kind Regards

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You can do it that way but you should not install the most recent version over such an ancient version in one step.