(06-14-2020, 05:14 AM)tophneal Wrote: Take look on the PBP wiki page. There’s a paragraph concerning using the NVME as your boot drive. I would suggest using pcm720s uboot, there is an image for SPI.

To answer your question about the 3 uboot images, those would be written to specific areas of the emmc. Those lines from  the update script show where they need to go on the emmc. from what i'm understanding of what you're trying to to do pcm720s SPI uboot img will suit you better for booting from NVMe.

(06-15-2020, 12:41 AM)AstroCEO Wrote: I'll investigate the PBP wiki page some.

However, that doesn't clarify to me how one would go about installing 3 .IMG files in pcm720's u-boot at the same exact time?  That should be impossible to the best of my understanding.  So, what order do you do each, and are there some instructions somewhere?

(06-15-2020, 08:50 AM)tophneal Wrote:

(06-15-2020, 12:41 AM)AstroCEO Wrote: I'll investigate the PBP wiki page some.

However, that doesn't clarify to me how one would go about installing 3 .IMG files in pcm720's u-boot at the same exact time?  That should be impossible to the best of my understanding.  So, what order do you do each, and are there some instructions somewhere?

There's a script, by Arglebargle, also linked there, which will assist in writing the uboot files to your eMMC (where it would be most useful.) You would simply download the 3 img files, set the emmc location in the script and run it.

However, if you're trying to use your NVMe as your boot drive, you'll want to write the .bin file to you SPI, instead of the 3 img files.

(06-23-2020, 11:17 AM)AstroCEO Wrote: @tophneal 

So, after some initial troubleshooting, I got the monitor to turn on.  It seems the monitor is working.  However, it doesn't activate properly on boot.  The only way I can get the laptop screen to activate is by connecting to a TV through USB-C, and mirroring.  Then, I have to restart or restart and unplug the USB-C dongle.

It seems the OS was booting all along.  The monitor is just not activating right...

Also, the WiFi is showing no available networks in the GUI or "nmtui".  It isn't showing anything at all during startup.  I tried a USB Ethernet dongle and also nothing.  The privacy switch has internet activated.

What do you advise to fix these two weird problems?

(06-23-2020, 11:57 AM)tophneal Wrote:

(06-23-2020, 11:17 AM)AstroCEO Wrote: @tophneal 

So, after some initial troubleshooting, I got the monitor to turn on.  It seems the monitor is working.  However, it doesn't activate properly on boot.  The only way I can get the laptop screen to activate is by connecting to a TV through USB-C, and mirroring.  Then, I have to restart or restart and unplug the USB-C dongle.

It seems the OS was booting all along.  The monitor is just not activating right...

Also, the WiFi is showing no available networks in the GUI or "nmtui".  It isn't showing anything at all during startup.  I tried a USB Ethernet dongle and also nothing.  The privacy switch has internet activated.

What do you advise to fix these two weird problems?

I would advise removing the back panel and making sure that the display cables are properly seated, as well as the wifi/antennas. The first part of the most recent batches shipping had QC issues, so likely they aren't seated well.

(06-23-2020, 01:34 PM)AstroCEO Wrote: I reseated the monitor cable with no change to the issue.  Where is the WiFi chipset and antenna located on these?  It didn't seem apparent to me.

(06-26-2020, 09:04 AM)AstroCEO Wrote: I reseated the WiFi with no change.  What do you think would cause a Pinebook Pro to not register any Wifi or Ethernet connections.  This isn't the latest batch.  It's from the December Debian group.

It showed WiFi previously, but after I did apt-get update & upgrade, and Mr. Fixit2001's update script, I no longer had any connection whatsoever.

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Also, I'd love to boot to another device, but no microSD boots have engaged thus far.  I've tried like 8 different images with eMMC enabled or disabled, and it never loaded microSD at startup.

(06-26-2020, 09:04 AM)AstroCEO Wrote: So, Ethernet came back one time. I managed to get USB support installed, a couple of simple utilities, and I flashed the SPI with the pcm720 NVMe U-boot binary file. However, I tried to boot to the microSD or NVMe afterwards and still no luck. The device only wants to load the eMMC content period for some reason.