Hi,

I have tried all day to install OpenBSD 7.2, 6.9 and 6.7 on my Pinebook Pro.
When I flash the installer*.img or miniroot*.img onto my usb-stick or SD card
and apply the necessary dtb and u-boot patching described in https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/7.2/...TALL.arm64,
the PBP starts into boot(8) and no matter what I try (eg. `set tty fb0` and/or `boot /bsd.rd` and/or `machine dtb ...`)
I get a flashing screen and nothing happens.

1: Do I need to buy a serial cable to install it or am I doing something wrong?
2: Does anyone have a working installer or image that works without a serial cable?
3: Is there some other way of installing it instead, eg. over ssh with an ethernet adapter (Pinephone USB-C dongle)?

i want to have manjaro on the emmc and arch on sd like mobian' but arch has no image to boot from tow-boot

i found this

https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Pi...558b533b4f

but i don't know how to apply it

do i have to flash the image and patch it somehow' or dose it have to be on the image itself ?

ezik

How and When will I be able to order the PineBook?

My recently-purchased Pine A64-LTS runs Armbian swimmingly. I also need to run Android on it— a seemingly trivial task, but one that has brought me to my wits end.

Here's what I've tried:

• The official Android 6.0 image (in its 32GB variant). The first time I extracted and burned this image, I saw a blue light appear on the board, noticed that the CPU was running hot to the touch, and nothing else. I extracted and burned the image two more times and saw nothing at all happen.
  
• The Android 7.1 community image. This image allows the board to turn on— however, it loops forever at the Android splash screen (in which it plays a fun animation before, in a normal scenario, shifting to the word "Android".) I attempted to burn it a second time with the same result.
  
• The Android 6.0 community image. This image successfully boots, but something is clearly horribly wrong. It runs at ~10FPS with significant lag in all menus, and I can't get any sort of internet connection— neither Ethernet nor a USB Ethernet adapter yield a link, and wifi and Bluetooth refuse to turn on. The Ethernet jack on the board blinks an orange light rapidly forever. Thus, this image is unusable. I attempted to burn it a second time with the same result.
  

I'm not sure if any pine products support this but I'll ask.

I was thinking about writing a toy OS. There two big problem I can see. 1. No hardware acceleration on graphics. I want to be able to render images and move them around and completely draw a new screen @60hz. I prefer 1080 but 60@720 would be fine 2. Boot up without writing much or any code. I hear there's a lot of work to get an ARM to boot properly. I don't really need libc (although I expect that to be available) but I'd like to be able to compile hello world and have the board show it on screen (or serial port) without me writing much code.

I was thinking about using an arduino which I have experience with but I've never done anything using HDMI or graphics with it. Typically arduinos give you a basic library for various shields and lets you use C to write your code.

On PPP, each time I run `sudo apt update` I get a load of "Could not resolve repo.mobian.org" errors. Any ideas?

Here's the contents of sources.list

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main non-free

Contents of mobian.list

deb http://repo.mobian.org/debian/ testing main non-free

Hello,

PinePhone Pro with Manjaro Plasma-Mobile developer edition.

How do I backup or export SMS and MMS for text messaging (text message) from Spacebar package? 
Is there a directory I can find the SMS and MMS within?

Thank you

After being gone for a month, I returned yesterday 23 Oct 2022 and thought 'let's update the Pinebook pro while I unpack'.  Running Manjaroo.  So I did, and after restart, WiFi no longer works.  Networks show "No available connections".  WiFi is on through the privacy switch (2 led blinks).  Any ideas how to fix?

Hi all, installed the NVMe adapter and it is outstanding!

Just added a TB of storage; went with a Samsung 980 and no issues so far.

I wanted to post so others knew it was an easy & affordable upgrade.

I had posted in a previous thread about a similar issue, but thought it best to create a new post since that one was becoming rather old. 

I purchased the PinePower Desktop a couple of weeks ago, and while it charges devices well, it constantly power cycles if there isn’t anything plugged into it. I tried reaching out to the seller, but they had directed me to this forum for support. Is there a firmware update that should be applied to the device?