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| order deadline for next production run |
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Posted by: bsammon - 11-23-2019, 10:56 PM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook Pro
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What is/was the order deadline for the next production run?
General timetable information would be appreciated as well. (with the understanding that everything is estimates/plans, not promises)
This is probably in a thread somewhere, but I looked for 5 minutes, and didn't find it.
Also, I'm lazy/wondering why it's not a pinned thread.
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| Re-partitioning; Adding swap partition; Using GPT partitions |
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Posted by: Arwen - 11-23-2019, 05:39 PM - Forum: Pinebook Pro Tutorials
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Here is a guide of how I repartitioned my eMMC to allow for a physical swap partition, and used GPT partition layout, (instead of DOS).
Basically you need an 8GB or larger SD card you can over-write.
Note that both Linux experience and command line familiarity is required. Any mistake and you could accidentally overwrite your working OS. Last, backups, (preferably multiple), is recommended.
This copies the low level boot information:
Code: # dd if=/dev/mmcblk1 bs=512 count=262144 of=/dev/mmcblk0
This section prepares the SD card. I had a 32GB one, so that is used in the sample below.
I don't give the details of how to use "fdisk", as the program has builtin help and can be quite verbose in use. But, you need to create a new partition label, (GPT in this example), as the one copied from above would almost certainly be wrong for the size of the media. Not to mention having a duplicate UUID number.
Do not change the start of either the "/boot" or the first partition, (swap or OS). Nor the size of the "/boot" partition. There is u-Boot code in there somewhere we don't want to overwrite.
Code: # fdisk /dev/mmcblk0
Disklabel type: gpt
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/mmcblk0p1 32768 163839 131072 64M Microsoft basic data
/dev/mmcblk0p2 262144 4456447 4194304 2G Linux swap
/dev/mmcblk0p3 4456448 61497310 57040863 27.2G Linux filesystem
Create the file systems:
Code: # mkfs.fat -n sd_boot -v /dev/mmcblk0p1
# mkswap -L sd_swap /dev/mmcblk0p2
# mke2fs -b 4096 -j -L sd_root -m 1 -t ext4 -v /dev/mmcblk0p3
This copies the boot partition:
Code: # mount -t vfat /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt
# rsync -aAHSXx --stats /boot/ /mnt/
# vi /mnt/extlinux/extlinux.conf
{change references to root FS from /dev/mmcblk1 to /dev/mmcblk0}
# umount /mnt
This copies the OS partition:
Code: # mount -t ext4 /dev/mmcblk0p3 /mnt
# rsync -aAHSXx --stats / /mnt/
# vi /mnt/etc/fstab
Add /boot & swap lines:
/dev/mmcblk0p1 /boot vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/mmcblk0p2 swap swap pri=5 0 0
# umount /mnt
Then reboot. If you have the ability to boot SD cards, this will create a bootable SD card.
Whence booted to SD card, you can redo do the eMMC as desired. I choose to allow for additional root file systems, so I made my first OS partition only 27GBs. More than enough with the 32bit ARM default OS.
Code: root@Debian-Desktop:~# df -h / /boot;swapon
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 27G 4.0G 23G 16% /
/dev/mmcblk1p1 64M 50M 15M 78% /boot
NAME TYPE SIZE USED PRIO
/dev/mmcblk1p2 partition 6G 0B 5
Code: root@Debian-Desktop:~# fdisk -l /dev/mmcblk1
Disk /dev/mmcblk1: 116.5 GiB, 125069950976 bytes, 244277248 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 3F39B914-D8D7-470B-BF6E-E7A2F2B33ABB
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/mmcblk1p1 32768 163839 131072 64M Microsoft basic data
/dev/mmcblk1p2 262144 12845055 12582912 6G Linux swap
/dev/mmcblk1p3 12845056 69885918 57040863 27.2G Linux filesystem
/dev/mmcblk1p4 69885952 126926814 57040863 27.2G Linux filesystem
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| Pine A64+ vs LCD do not boot |
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Posted by: DDS - 11-23-2019, 03:41 AM - Forum: General Discussion on PINE A64(+)
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Hi.
I've kickstarter's version of A64 vs 2GB RAM with LCD 7" and 2A power supply that was shipped with the devices
I've boot it up with Android 6 using HDMI succesfully, but when trying to boot it up with LCD connected, it doesn't boot up - the power led going half brihtness for a second, then full brightness and then off. Pressing power button getting same results.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
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Can't reinstall debian after breaking pre-installed OS |
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Posted by: crownest - 11-22-2019, 08:13 PM - Forum: Linux on Pinebook Pro
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I made a mistake and wrecked my chromium and firefox installs and need to revert to factory state OS. I downloaded the image from the repo for the same debian that comes pre-installed, but after burning to micro-sd it just sits on a black blank screen. I left it for over an hour just to see if that was just initializing or installing or something but after I rebooted it the old broken version is still there.
I got the aryfan build of bionic to boot up but it is a live os that can't seem to connect to any wifi (says bad password, even though I did it over and over and it was not a bad password). But it shows the card is being read and can be boot from.
I used etcher to burn the image of the debian mrfixit build to a 32gb micro SD but like I said it is just a blank screen. Right now my pinebook pro is pretty useless, but it is my own fault for tinkering so much with it. Any ideas as to why the image (pinebookpro-debian-mrfixit) just sits on a blank screen? I wonder how they put the OS on this in the first place.
Anyways, love the pinebook pro otherwise, and thanks.
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| rkmpv Accelerated Media Player issues |
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Posted by: zaius - 11-22-2019, 02:56 PM - Forum: Linux on Pinebook Pro
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This is a minor problem, but I thought it was worth mentioning.
I'm running the Bionic-Mate build off SD. The rkmpv Accelerated Media Player seems to have the best video quality compared to the other two installed players. (I have not tried installing VLC yet.) However, it automatically opens in full screen, there doesn't seem to be any way to exit full screen, moving the mouse to the top or bottom of the screen doesn't bring up a bar with controls or playing information. Keyboard commands do not work well. Sometimes pausing with the space bar works, other times it gets stuck.
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| PBP for sale Atlanta GA |
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Posted by: gb13717 - 11-22-2019, 11:01 AM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook Pro
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Hi everyone I got my PBP and its cool, but I don't really want/need it anymore so I thought maybe one of you would want to buy it off me rather than have it collect dust. There's no defects that I can tell. I suppose this is the right place to advertise it? Hit me up with an offer.
apologies if this isn't the right place to post this
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