[very_rude_Turnip]

Hello!

Today I tried to update my Kobo Aura 2nd edition v2, but it went horribly wrong and I'm looking for advice.

Fortunately I had a dd dump of the sdcard so I restored it, but I want to try again.

I know quite a bit about embedded systems and linux, but not too much about how these Kobos work. I've also not visited the forum probably two years.

I'm a privacy extremist. I don't ever let my device connect to wifi and never will. I do all of my syncing of files via USB and an rsync script I wrote.

I simply unzipped the kobo-update zip file to my mounted .kobo directory and let the device upgrade. I suspect there may be some intermediate upgrades required, but I don't know which ones.

After I installed the upgrade files and unplugged my USB port, the Kobo looked like it was doing it's upgrade, but it ultimately failed and I ended up with a black screen after boot.

I had no modifications to my OS files which I recall.

Any advice?