NetBSD on the Pinebook Pro in August 2022 - or not?
I don't know what goes on in the Linux world. I surmise that Manjaro now comes with a U-Boot that is incompatible with NetBSD.
I bought another PinebookPro. I have a microSD card with NetBSD 9.0 on it that I used as sort of a rescue boot for my other PinebookPro (which runs NetBSD 9.1). I know that it works because I booted the old PBP with it, to make an image of the eMMC, so that I could make the new PBP a clone of the old one. Booting this new PBP with the microSD card works for less than 20 seconds, and then the display turns off. I have yet to open this PBP up to use the serial console, but I don't expect that will help, because NetBSD does start to boot. I see that the PBP image of NetBSD has been withdrawn from armbsd.org, and I expect that is due to this problem.
I suppose it may be possible to install a different Linux on a microSD card in order to re-flash the eMMC with my original PBP NetBSD image. But I wonder if I will run into some other trouble and effectively brick the PBP. Is Manjaro booting via SPI ROM? I'm not very ambitious about experimenting because I don't have my other PBP running NetBSD to fall back on.
Well it seems I can answer my own question. My microSD card may have gone corrupt.
I followed the first three instructions here https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/ins...g_sysinst/
and then copied rk3399-pinebook-pro.dtb from /dtb/rockchip to both /dtb and / (because I don't recall which is the proper place), and now have a bootable microSD with NetBSD.
The actual first command used was
arm64.img is from evbarm/aarch64
the Pinebook Pro U-Boot was found here https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packag...4/9.0/All/
I bought another PinebookPro. I have a microSD card with NetBSD 9.0 on it that I used as sort of a rescue boot for my other PinebookPro (which runs NetBSD 9.1). I know that it works because I booted the old PBP with it, to make an image of the eMMC, so that I could make the new PBP a clone of the old one. Booting this new PBP with the microSD card works for less than 20 seconds, and then the display turns off. I have yet to open this PBP up to use the serial console, but I don't expect that will help, because NetBSD does start to boot. I see that the PBP image of NetBSD has been withdrawn from armbsd.org, and I expect that is due to this problem.
I suppose it may be possible to install a different Linux on a microSD card in order to re-flash the eMMC with my original PBP NetBSD image. But I wonder if I will run into some other trouble and effectively brick the PBP. Is Manjaro booting via SPI ROM? I'm not very ambitious about experimenting because I don't have my other PBP running NetBSD to fall back on.
Well it seems I can answer my own question. My microSD card may have gone corrupt.
I followed the first three instructions here https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/ins...g_sysinst/
and then copied rk3399-pinebook-pro.dtb from /dtb/rockchip to both /dtb and / (because I don't recall which is the proper place), and now have a bootable microSD with NetBSD.
The actual first command used was
Code:
dd if=arm64.img of=/dev/mmcblk1 bs=1M conv=syncthe Pinebook Pro U-Boot was found here https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packag...4/9.0/All/
