Unable to update HA OS to 7.1

Hi,
Completely new to home automation I now step into the HA world. I acquired a Home Assistant Blue system and am just familiarizing myself.
HA Blue has HA OS 5.13 that I like to update to 7.1. But the automatic option seems to fail so far.
Some additional info:

  • I use a static IP address and I tried DNS Servers 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8 as per online advise
  • other components updated like a charm

Some help is very much appreciated. Thanks in advance!

HAOS update failed on Home Assistant Blue - Home Assistant OS - Home Assistant Community (home-assistant.io)

See above. You need to update to 6 first, then 7.

I had the same, but had to do some additional steps

ha os update --version 6.0
ha os update --version 6.6
ha os update --version 7.0

And then i could update to 7.1 with the GUI

Thanks for your reply. It worked (even with skipping the 6.0 update)

I have a similar problem (updating from 5.13 to 7.4) but, in my case, even updating to 6.0 using the command line did not work.
It kind of works, as I can conclude the update, but during the restart process it shows failure messages (see images below), one of them requiring user intervention (pressing ctrl-d) and every system restart after that has the same problem. Then, even though I can update, after the update my system does not allow unattended restarts and, of course, restarting via UI does not work.

Here are the screenshots of the failure messages:


and then
error at reboot 3

The same problem happens, no matter if I update to 6.0, 6.6, 7.0 or 7.4
If I restore the VM files from my current install (OS 5.13), it works fine.

Any idea on how to fix this?