[rTiGd2]

Just loving this effort. My card nuked the /boot partition during the initial attempt to upgrade this way so did a fresh windows installer card and the only thing required extra to get this method of update working was to manually create the .update directory.. Fine work indeed.

Hi rTiGd2,
I'm loving it too, but was triggered about your remark about a nuked /boot partition. I tried to upgrade to the latest test build a couple of days ago, but was confronted with all kinds of kernel errors and a hanging Pi at the point where I tried to copy the boot files to /boot. I rebooted and retried it a couple of times, each case with the same result (kernel errors and a hanging Pi). Fortunately it still booted correctly each time. Since this, I also notice occasional corrupted font rendering in subtitles and GUI. Certain characters are shown completely mutilated, but not consistently... Maybe related, probably not...?

I was planning to create a fresh install this weekend to get rid of this, thinking it was just some anomaly. But now I see your report about a corrupted boot partition, I thought it may be interesting to report my case as well.
Any other people with corrupted boot partitions?...

You'll find this is just a 'fact of life' for RPi, especially if you overclock, have less than optimal power supplies, don't shut down cleanly etc.. The issue of /boot (or any partition corruption) isn't through the fault of XBMC, more just the nature of the architecture coupled with the disk happy nature of an OS like Linux. Thankfully, it's quite easy to start from fresh. Perhaps even get the base install of RASPBMC installed and running first time, then cleanly shut down and image the card.

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So tempted buy https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/woo...-displays/ in order to get it working with RASPBMC and then donate the required additions to the build back to this project