Cannot update beaglebone black debian

With the flasher or live sd variants of debian 10.3, I cannot use apt update & apt upgrade or HDMI and USB would break and I would have to reinstall the whole OS again which is annoying. What could be the problem and how can I troubleshoot it?

The issue is an old version of u-boot with new kernel’s that have specific kernel builds of overlays…

Just grab a new snapshot:

https://forum.beagleboard.org/tag/latest-images

Regards,