08-24-2022, 08:20 PM
(08-24-2022, 07:43 PM)wdt Wrote: >The boot loader installed in the SPI from the factory allowed booting from USB.
Do you have any details about this? what version?
Did you make a backup of it before overwriting it with towboot?
uboot is more like firmware, it is hardly a boot
when the OS is loaded, that is a boot
From what I read, Tow-Boot was a fork of UBoot, so they're both filling the same niche and doing the same thing. It just makes more of the storage devices available for booting an OS. Also, from what I saw when trying to move to a different OS for my PBP, the version of UBoot installed in the SPI at the factory only guarantees to boot with Manjaro, and that others have had problems flashing and booting other operating systems with that version of UBoot.
Regardless of the semantics, the steps I outlined above do work and should work for pretty much any OS you want to dd back over your eMMC module.