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Having difficulty installing PostmarketOS on Pinephone Convergence Beta edition - spazz - 10-03-2024 Hi all. I made a reply about this issue to this issue in somebody else's thread started in 2021, but it might be bumping a thread which is too old. The original thread is this: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=13703 My essential problems are:
This is a BRAND NEW SD card out of the package. The Pinephone does SEE the SD Card when I run lsblk on the pinephone, so it is mysterious to me why it cannot boot the images when I flash them. So, I am mystified and must consult the wise oracles and wizards on this forum and hope for assistance. Further specific details about my attempts and links are below. Brand new SD card. I have a Pinephone Convergence Beta edition. Running lsblk on the phone, it actually sees the sd card. However, no matter what I seem to try, I cannot boot it to either PostmarketOS as flashed to the SD card, or to Jumpdrive (developed by some of the Postmarket developers). In the other forum thread: One of the repondents [MtnSk8] suggested zeroing the first few bytes of the SD Card. https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=13703 Q. HOW do I zero "the first few bytes" of the SD card for this operation, and exactly how many bytes is "the first few"? 1? 2? 8? 16? 512? 1024? I took a gamble on this from pinephone documentation [url https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/PinePhone_Installation_Instructions [/url] and tried: Code: sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/[DEVICE] bs=8k seek=1 count=4 But have no idea if that's what I am meant to do. Anyway, this didn't help. For flashing the image, I have attempted the following: I tried flashing using standard dd method (having first run unxz to decompress the postmarket.img.xz file) Code: sudo dd if=postmarket.img of=/dev/sdXX status=progress and also tried to flash using the interesting method of decompressing postmarket.img.xz piped through dd as described in postmarket documentation below https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/JumpDrive Code: xz --decompress --stdout pine64-pinephone.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/mmcblk... status=progress In this case, I think the instructions are indicating doing this on the pinephone itself, but I am flashing it to the SD card using my linux desktop. So, in the instructions, Code: /dev/mmcblk... ...in my case obviously becomes Code: /dev/sdXX I have attempted all these methods a few times, after my ignorant attempt at zeroing the first few bytes of the SD Card. Still no luck or success at all. Thanks anybody for any help or advice. RE: Having difficulty installing PostmarketOS on Pinephone Convergence Beta edition - shulamy - 10-04-2024 have you tried etcher ? the dd didn't work for me but etcher did ezik RE: Having difficulty installing PostmarketOS on Pinephone Convergence Beta edition - spazz - 10-04-2024 (Yesterday, 01:47 AM)shulamy Wrote: have you tried etcher ? Thanks ezik. That's a good suggestion, but this would probably be a bit of a last resort. I might try the app-image version of etcher if absolutely nothing else works, but I hesitate as etcher is not found under standard debian repos, and has to be downloaded from a third party's website. dd should work, and it is mentioned in all of the documentation (postmarketOS and pinephone documentation). It's also the standard / default tool in gnu/linux for flashing bootable images to media. I'm sure there is probably just something I am missing. Perhaps the block size option with a specific size. Or something else entirely. Thanks again though. Good to know that might work if all else fails. Will keep that suggestion under my hat (: RE: Having difficulty installing PostmarketOS on Pinephone Convergence Beta edition - shulamy - 10-04-2024 i forgot to say that it was arch manjaro and mobian so i don't know about PostmarketOS ezik RE: Having difficulty installing PostmarketOS on Pinephone Convergence Beta edition - mikehenson - 10-04-2024 (10-03-2024, 11:56 PM)spazz Wrote: I tried flashing using standard dd method (having first run unxz to decompress the postmarket.img.xz file) Hello! I made a video about a year ago and it shows how to find the right device to flash the image to. PinePhone Pro (1of5) - Flash DanctNIX Arch with Phosh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBGVUq3DGK4&list=PLUd45KipRCgiaJC8EeDBCcPixZG94pj99 00:00 Intro 00:20 Download image 01:05 uncompressed image 02:20 Turn on phone 03:30 unmount phone 04:25 dd the image 07:10 Reboot the phone 08:40 DONE! RE: Having difficulty installing PostmarketOS on Pinephone Convergence Beta edition - spazz - 10-04-2024 (Yesterday, 07:49 AM)mikehenson Wrote:(10-03-2024, 11:56 PM)Hello! I made a video about a year ago and it shows how to find the right device to flash the image to. PinePhone Pro (1of5) - Flash DanctNIX Arch with Phosh Wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBGVUq3DGK4&list=PLUd45KipRCgiaJC8EeDBCcPixZG94pj99 MH: You are an ABSOLUTE LEGEND, sir. This looks like an absolute beauty of a video. Chapterized, timestamped. Appears to be extremely thorough. Definitely deserves a few more views. I will work through this this evening or tomorrow and report back. Really glad to see this. Top work. Thank you! In fact, your entire channel looks like a massive asset to the community. I take my hat off to you. |