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wiping u-boot off sd card - shulamy - 07-17-2022
i installed tow-boot on pinephone beta edition but it dosn't work
so i found this
Quote:Q: I’ve installed Tow-Boot on my original PinePhone but it’s not working as described. A: The original PinePhone will always boot any u-boot on the SD card first. If you have an older Mobian image or another OS image on the SD card this may happen. Removing the SD card or wiping u-boot off it should cause Tow-Boot to work.
but i don't find how to do it or where to find image without u-boot
ezik
RE: wiping u-boot off sd card - wibble - 07-18-2022
I described how I think it should work in the post below. Note that it's based on my reading of documentation linked further up the thread, and I haven't actually tried it.
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=16524&pid=110012#pid110012
RE: wiping u-boot off sd card - shulamy - 07-18-2022
(07-18-2022, 03:51 AM)wibble Wrote: I described how I think it should work in the post below. Note that it's based on my reading of documentation linked further up the thread, and I haven't actually tried it.
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=16524&pid=110012#pid110012
thanks i'll check it
it's a new installation so i don't mind reinstall
ezik
RE: wiping u-boot off sd card - shulamy - 07-18-2022
no it didn't work
the boot directory is empty
but the phone turn on with green light and vibrate every few seconds in endless loop
ezik
RE: wiping u-boot off sd card - shulamy - 07-19-2022
Quote:Since Danctnix (arch) switched to a gpt partition table from mbr in May of 2022 it installs u-boot at an offset of 128k instead of 8k, which means this command must be used instead
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/[DEVICE] bs=32k seek=4 count=1
maybe that's why
i'll try this command when i get to linux computer
ezik
RE: wiping u-boot off sd card - shulamy - 07-21-2022
now tow-boot is booting and the led turns aqua for a second
the archlinux from sd start to boot but fails and manjaro boot from emmc
ezik
i tried an older image of arch but it doesn't boot as well
i think now that those instractions wipe too much
because it's for using the sd as storage and not for booting
ezik
RE: wiping u-boot off sd card - shulamy - 08-17-2022
i read somewhere that u-boot has bootloader part and firmware part
and i think this dd command wipe both
ezik