(09-22-2022, 09:08 AM)thebladerunner Wrote: I don’t know why people try to reflash the SPI memory either. I did not intentionally do that. The update to Manjaro seemed to be the source of my problem.
There are some differences in your proposed method. I’ll try that later today and see if I can resurrect this PBP.
I suspect that you are chasing a red herring (that is, SPI is blank)
My guess is that the manjaro update has a new kernel, and ALSO a new dtb
And that, I suspect is the problem
You said you have serial connection?
Does it display the start of uboot?
If so, remove ALL media, do you get the same thing?
If yes, then uboot is on SPI,,,,, if no, then problem is on emmc
And, for that matter, only mrfixit actually writes the uboot to the 1st 16M (in an update)
(nearly ALL images have the 1st 16M populated, as part of the image)
manjaro just dumps idbloader and uboot.itb into /boot,
you are supposed to do the actual dd write yourself, manually
ALSO (emmc in usb carrier),,, ls -l boot/dtbs/rockchip/*pinebook-pro*
If there is an older, try a rename (current -> *.bad,,, older -> current)