Unable to boot?

[YossiS]

My brand new pine book pro has never worked! So far I have gotten the green power light to turn on and that's all. 

I was told to flip the emmc switch to on, which made it so the green power light doesn't turn on anymore, and I wrote a Manjaro ARM gnome photo 23.02 img.xz file use etchDroid on a 32gb Sandisk SD card. I placed that in the Pinebook after turning the emmc switch off again but it hasn't made a difference .

Let me know, all I want is to be able to turn on the laptop and use the browser and libre office writer or whatever.

Why does it have to be so hard to turn on a computer?

[KC9UDX]

Well, it does turn on and does boot, partially based on your report.

Try booting from micro SD with the eMMC switch turned off. If that doesn't work, your SD card isn't bootable.

I know it's not obvious but there are probably dozens of threads exactly like this here.

[wdt]

FWIW, on means disable on, I know, this is sort of backwards
I would suggest, try armbian (with emmc disabled),, if you get a boot, fsck the emmc partitions
(use lsblk to get device ids)
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this may be, yet again, manjaros defective uboot

[ingumber]

What are the steps to create a bootable micro SD card?

[wdt]

All images have idbloader and uboot in 1st 16M
Assume that it is a xz compressed image, if any compressed file is corrupt it will error out

xzcat image|dd of=/dev/sdcard bs=1M ; sync (replace sdcard with appropriate device)

But, BUT, if manjaro is on emmc, it may prevent uSD boot (since emmc has priority in search order for idbloader)
(and manjaro's uboot is defective)
test by disabling emmc (or removing) and see if it now boots
if so, do switch dance (so you have a dev for emmc, then change uboot there) or install tow-boot to SPI