So far so good, I have been so busy at the office beyond the initial install and adding some BTC and opening some channels I have not done a lot of testing.
I have used RPi and raspiblitz before so other then the case / drive type change it's all the same so I don't think there will be any issues.
Alright, sounds good! Then maybe I'll buy a Pi 4, SSD etc. as well and build one more node, eh, every additional node helps! I have used RPi and raspiblitz before so other then the case / drive type change it's all the same so I don't think there will be any issues.
Q: I updated the system and now my Apollo won't boot
A: DO NOT UPDATE THE OS THROUGH THE SYSTEM UPDATE PROMPTS Even though the Apollo is a full linux desktop, its still an embedded system with multiple system level changes to make it work with our proprietary hardware attached to it. If you do a system level OS update these will be whipped and you will end up with a bricked system, requiring a full SD card reflash using the stock image. Any system/kernel level updates will issue here with updated SD card images.
A: DO NOT UPDATE THE OS THROUGH THE SYSTEM UPDATE PROMPTS Even though the Apollo is a full linux desktop, its still an embedded system with multiple system level changes to make it work with our proprietary hardware attached to it. If you do a system level OS update these will be whipped and you will end up with a bricked system, requiring a full SD card reflash using the stock image. Any system/kernel level updates will issue here with updated SD card images.
The problem is that they may or may not rely on some package that is different then what you need for what you want. Update the wrong thing and.....
Although they do say you can install other packages and even encourage it. It still worries me that if what I need to run has a dependency that is slightly newer / older then what is on the unit it can cause an issue.
They say it's only system level changes but still would rather not have to worry about it. That's just me you may have more free time to shrug it off and start fresh.
-Dave
One idea might be to run lnd within a Docker container. That shouldn't affect the Apollo since it's kind of capsuled in its container, I guess - finally a scenario where Docker might actually make sense. Let's see... Not sure yet.