PBP won’t boot from eMMC after Debian update / Tow-Boot installer won’t boot from SD
04-26-2022, 08:56 AM
For 2 years I’ve been running Debian 10 Buster on my PBP, installed, with encryption, on the eMMC with Daniel Thompson’s awesome installer (thank you Daniel!!). The PBP is my daily driver.
Last week I tried upgrading to Debian 11 Bullseye following the instructions on the Debian website (https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye...de-process). All seemed to go smoothly until it came to rebooting, which unfortunately only produced a green power LED and a black screen.
I tried installing Tow-Boot, hoping I could salvage something with that or otherwise do a clean install of Debian 11. Unfortunately booting from the Tow-Boot installer SD card fails in the same way: Only the power LED lights, otherwise nothing happens. I tried 2 different SD cards (both Kingston 32 GB Class 10 U1 though) and wrote the spi.installer.img to the cards using both dd and the disks utility.
I can boot Bullseye from a similar SD (previously created with Daniel Thompsons installer) though.
I recorded the upgrade with “script” as per 4.4.1 in the Debian upgrade instructions but don’t really know what to look for.
I’ve been a linux user for around 15 years, happy to use the command line for simple things and to fix problems with instructions found online but otherwise very much a GUI person. I can’t really find any information relating to my 2 problems so I’m more than a bit out of my depth here.
Is there anyone with an idea what I’m doing wrong?
Last week I tried upgrading to Debian 11 Bullseye following the instructions on the Debian website (https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye...de-process). All seemed to go smoothly until it came to rebooting, which unfortunately only produced a green power LED and a black screen.
I tried installing Tow-Boot, hoping I could salvage something with that or otherwise do a clean install of Debian 11. Unfortunately booting from the Tow-Boot installer SD card fails in the same way: Only the power LED lights, otherwise nothing happens. I tried 2 different SD cards (both Kingston 32 GB Class 10 U1 though) and wrote the spi.installer.img to the cards using both dd and the disks utility.
I can boot Bullseye from a similar SD (previously created with Daniel Thompsons installer) though.
I recorded the upgrade with “script” as per 4.4.1 in the Debian upgrade instructions but don’t really know what to look for.
I’ve been a linux user for around 15 years, happy to use the command line for simple things and to fix problems with instructions found online but otherwise very much a GUI person. I can’t really find any information relating to my 2 problems so I’m more than a bit out of my depth here.
Is there anyone with an idea what I’m doing wrong?
