Hello geoW
Thank you for tracking this thread.
Wich image I used? → NextCloudPi-image for RPi5 v1.54.0
Is there a monitor and keyboard connected? → Yes. This method I meant by “local login”
How did I wrote? → This is a bit complicated because of a special setup and my wish to avoid using unreliable SD-Cards as root partition.
See here:
https://help.nextcloud.com/t/curl-installation-ncp-auf-raspberry-pi-5-nvme-ohne-lauffahige-web-bedienung/195948
I use a NVMe-extension with direct connection to RPi-5 (not using USB).
Long story short:
I started with a system running from SD-Card. From there I used dd to write the ncp-image to the NVMe.
After that, I had to resize the boot-partition from 256MB to 512MB and as I wanted a root-partition with btrfs, I had to create a new partition and copied the all files from the ext4 partition to the btrfs one including permissions.
Some space I turned into a swap partition und the free space I used to create a fourth partition to use as data partition later.
First start failed (run into initramfs and stopped there) because RPi uses a start parameter for kind of filesystem it is expecting for root partition, which was ext4 by default.
I switched this to btrfs and after that RPi-5 started and NCP activation site came up.
Here we are.
As I read somewhere, someone stuck at this point too and managed to fix this by command line with manual starting command ncp-config and nc-init.
Unfortunately this info is a bit outdated (2018) and login seems blocked before activation of NC(P).
https://help.nextcloud.com/t/nextcloudplus-not-yet-initialized-trying-again-in-a-few-seconds/31019
My hope is somehow skipping the configuration of the data partition during activation of the instance just for doing it later through NCPi administration website.
I am currently running a second Pi(4) with an instance since a few month now.
Main goal is to restore a backup of this RPi-4-Instance to the hopefully better performing RPi-5 NCP.
Thanks for reading and willing to help.
Vardtraed