Updating to Roon OS 2.1

[Suedkiez (Just a fellow user like you)]

@mjw

It won’t update to Roon OS 2.0, let alone 2.1 if it uses legacy booting

Yeah, that’s what I wanted to make clear because I thought this had caused the confusion for @Mike_O_Neill

Though with the small wrinkle that there never was a release actually labeled RoonOS 2.0, it went from 1.0 straight to 2.1 and there was only a retroactive labeling of some builds as 2.0:

RoonOS (Nucleus / ROCK) 2.1 is live!

Hello Everyone, We’re excited to announce the latest release of Roon OS, now featuring native Tailscale support! While many users enjoy seamless connectivity with ARC, we recognize that some encounter challenges due to ISP restrictions, router configurations, and other technical issues. To address this, we’ve integrated a simple Tailscale setup into Roon OS. You can now enable Tailscale with just a few clicks. Note that you’ll still need Tailscale running on your phone for ARC, but the setup o…

@mjw

I thought 2.x only supports UEFI.

There is only one ROCK installer and I thought it still has to be installable if a NUC has only Legacy support or the settings are configured to use Legacy and not UEFI. But I can be wrong and maybe new Legacy installs aren’t possible anymore.

Anyway, I didn’t intend to cause confusion, just to emphasize that an older ROCK installation that uses Legacy BIOS will not auto-update to RoonOS 2.1 with Tailscale, and using Tailscale requires a complete reinstallation with the NUC set to UEFI mode. Because I thought this was the question/confusion in the OP.