08-21-2022, 07:23 AM
(08-21-2022, 06:45 AM)untitled Wrote: I found a superb solution -- postmarket os. Boots like a charm and has instructions on their website on how to flash u-boot to SPI. Default passwd is 147147.
(08-21-2022, 06:13 AM)KC9UDX Wrote:(08-20-2022, 11:03 AM)KC9UDX Wrote: NetBSD will certainly work. But getting a working image is not so straightforward anymore. I have a working SD card of the Mr Fixit Debian, and do know that it works without the eMMC. But an image to make the one that I have might not be readily available anymore.
Just going through the links in the wiki (which are terribly out of date), the first image I found today that just works is Diet Pi.
We might have different versions of the laptop. I ordered mine just a week ago and I noticed that most of the instructions/images from 2020 don't work. Also layout of motherboard is different.
I have three. The one I'm dealing with today is probably exactly like yours, I just received it last week (maybe the week before?). One is from the 2nd production run (I think) and one is somewhere in the middle. What I'm surmising is different about this latest one is that Manjaru U-boot has been changing, and the new PBPs come with the latest one, which is incompatible with the older images. The thing I did find out for sure is that none of the bootable micro-sd cards that I have actually boot without a working U-boot on the eMMC. (The Diet Pi image from the wiki does boot, which is how I'm using the PBP today to try to get a working NetBSD image)
Unfortunately for me, I assumed that everything I made with PBP#2 would actually just work on this new one. Else I would've kept #2 at home to support trying to get the new one to work.
Hardware-wise the thing I really don't like about this new one is the new switch to disable the eMMC. It could just be my imagination, but it seems more fragile than the original.