(05-24-2022, 07:49 AM)wibble Wrote: You don't say which image you were trying to flash or which instructions you tried to follow. You should still be able to boot JumpDrive from the SD then reflash. If you look at the instructions carefully you'll see that they almost always say to dd to the raw device, not to a partition on it.

(05-24-2022, 07:15 AM)erg Wrote: I broke stuff.
Booted from JumpDrive, saw what looked like two partitions (I guess they're actually separate emmc drives?) exposed (apart from the SD card), in frenzy formatted the first one to vfat, flashed system to the second partition with dd.
Pinephone doesn't start. I guess the first partition is a boot partition and I broke it. I can't find files that should go onto the first partition in order to fix it.
What should I do?

(05-24-2022, 01:54 PM)fxc Wrote:

(05-24-2022, 07:15 AM)erg Wrote: I broke stuff.
Booted from JumpDrive, saw what looked like two partitions (I guess they're actually separate emmc drives?) exposed (apart from the SD card), in frenzy formatted the first one to vfat, flashed system to the second partition with dd.
Pinephone doesn't start. I guess the first partition is a boot partition and I broke it. I can't find files that should go onto the first partition in order to fix it.
What should I do?

Jumpdrive exposes the eMMC and the microSD card directly, which is probably what you saw in the "lsblk" output. Please don't format the drives manually, as that doesn't make sense and will just cause you issues: formatting a drive does not remove U-Boot from the partition so the phone will still load U-Boot and don't find a valid system (= the phone's screen stays black). I guess that is also where your other issues also originate from. When flashing an image it will contain everything you need, including the whole partition structure. Make sure you're flashing the partition to the whole disk, not to partition 1. The whole disk will typically be called ""sda", "sdb" or "sdc", not "sda1". The "1" next to "sda" means it is the first partition.

(05-24-2022, 02:53 PM)erg Wrote:

(05-24-2022, 01:54 PM)fxc Wrote:

(05-24-2022, 07:15 AM)erg Wrote: I broke stuff.
Booted from JumpDrive, saw what looked like two partitions (I guess they're actually separate emmc drives?) exposed (apart from the SD card), in frenzy formatted the first one to vfat, flashed system to the second partition with dd.
Pinephone doesn't start. I guess the first partition is a boot partition and I broke it. I can't find files that should go onto the first partition in order to fix it.
What should I do?

Jumpdrive exposes the eMMC and the microSD card directly, which is probably what you saw in the "lsblk" output. Please don't format the drives manually, as that doesn't make sense and will just cause you issues: formatting a drive does not remove U-Boot from the partition so the phone will still load U-Boot and don't find a valid system (= the phone's screen stays black). I guess that is also where your other issues also originate from. When flashing an image it will contain everything you need, including the whole partition structure. Make sure you're flashing the partition to the whole disk, not to partition 1. The whole disk will typically be called ""sda", "sdb" or "sdc", not "sda1". The "1" next to "sda" means it is the first partition.

I did try that at first, flashing to /dev/sdc, only it failed with: No space left on the device. That's when I tried other options.

(05-26-2022, 05:30 AM)fxc Wrote:

(05-24-2022, 02:53 PM)erg Wrote:

(05-24-2022, 01:54 PM)fxc Wrote:

(05-24-2022, 07:15 AM)erg Wrote: I broke stuff.
Booted from JumpDrive, saw what looked like two partitions (I guess they're actually separate emmc drives?) exposed (apart from the SD card), in frenzy formatted the first one to vfat, flashed system to the second partition with dd.
Pinephone doesn't start. I guess the first partition is a boot partition and I broke it. I can't find files that should go onto the first partition in order to fix it.
What should I do?

Jumpdrive exposes the eMMC and the microSD card directly, which is probably what you saw in the "lsblk" output. Please don't format the drives manually, as that doesn't make sense and will just cause you issues: formatting a drive does not remove U-Boot from the partition so the phone will still load U-Boot and don't find a valid system (= the phone's screen stays black). I guess that is also where your other issues also originate from. When flashing an image it will contain everything you need, including the whole partition structure. Make sure you're flashing the partition to the whole disk, not to partition 1. The whole disk will typically be called ""sda", "sdb" or "sdc", not "sda1". The "1" next to "sda" means it is the first partition.

I did try that at first, flashing to /dev/sdc, only it failed with: No space left on the device. That's when I tried other options.

Was the issue solved or is there still an issue writing to the eMMC? If the latter I would suggest you to post the full "lsblk" output here.

(05-26-2022, 07:06 AM)mikehenson Wrote: This is a guide, DO NOT just copy and paste these commands

Code:

#download the img
https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Jumpdrive
https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Pine64-Arch/releases
cd ~/Downloads/
#unzip the image
unxz ./pine64-pinephone.img.xz
#(Plug in the SD or Phone card)
lsblk
#make sure it is un mounted
sudo umount /run/media/user/1FAE-0542/
#Copy over. This will take time
sudo dd if=~/Downloads/pine64-pinephone.img of=/dev/sdd status=progress
sudo sync

(05-26-2022, 07:18 AM)erg Wrote:

(05-26-2022, 07:06 AM)mikehenson Wrote: This is a guide, DO NOT just copy and paste these commands

Code:

#download the img
https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Jumpdrive
https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Pine64-Arch/releases
cd ~/Downloads/
#unzip the image
unxz ./pine64-pinephone.img.xz
#(Plug in the SD or Phone card)
lsblk
#make sure it is un mounted
sudo umount /run/media/user/1FAE-0542/
#Copy over. This will take time
sudo dd if=~/Downloads/pine64-pinephone.img of=/dev/sdd status=progress
sudo sync

Thanks for your advice. As I understand it, that's for flashing Jumpdrive to the SD card? I do have that base covered. I can boot the phone from the SD card with JumpDrive on it, I can telnet to it. I can also boot the phone with the OS image on the SD card no problem.

What I am not managing to do is to flash the actual operating system image onto the eMMc storage using JumpDrive.

Flashing to /dev/sdc fails saying there's not space.
Flashing to dev/sdc1 fails saying there's not space.
Flashing to /dev/sdc2 succeeds but phone does not boot.