Unable to make a bootable microSD card
09-10-2022, 12:44 PM
I'll assume you got one of the new batch, since I had many of the exact same issues over the last week with mine. To start with, the Fedora 32 images on the wiki (at least the KDE one) was one of the only images I got to work, initially. Armbian minimal also worked, but as I was in a flurry of experimentation, I stuck with what worked first and ran with it.
Before I could get much of anything else to boot, I had to flash Tow-Boot to the SPI. Then I managed to get the manjaro-arm-installer functioning in Fedora by installing the dependencies (a bit of trial and error there) and then I was finally able to run it to install Manjaro on the eMMC. The current official Debian SD images don't appear to have any of the correct drivers for the PBP, so I still haven't gotten that to work, but the Debian installer from the wiki works once Tow-Boot was installed (and many modifications were made to the script), as well.
Now I've got an encrypted Manjaro install on NVMe and everything works great, except for sleep, which I have not been able to get functioning properly in ANY OS/storage combo; I always have to set the suspend state to 'freeze', which sucks down nearly as much battery life as haven't the whole system powered on, but is fine for moving to/from work and back, at least.
This newest revision definitely has some new hardware that hasn't been thoroughly documented yet. For example, the WiFi will not work in ANY OS I've installed out-of-the-box, with the exception of a clean installation from the manjaro-arm-installer script. You need to download the brcmfmac43455 firmware blob (from a repo like this one) and copy them to /lib/firmware/brmc/ to get it functional.
Before I could get much of anything else to boot, I had to flash Tow-Boot to the SPI. Then I managed to get the manjaro-arm-installer functioning in Fedora by installing the dependencies (a bit of trial and error there) and then I was finally able to run it to install Manjaro on the eMMC. The current official Debian SD images don't appear to have any of the correct drivers for the PBP, so I still haven't gotten that to work, but the Debian installer from the wiki works once Tow-Boot was installed (and many modifications were made to the script), as well.
Now I've got an encrypted Manjaro install on NVMe and everything works great, except for sleep, which I have not been able to get functioning properly in ANY OS/storage combo; I always have to set the suspend state to 'freeze', which sucks down nearly as much battery life as haven't the whole system powered on, but is fine for moving to/from work and back, at least.
This newest revision definitely has some new hardware that hasn't been thoroughly documented yet. For example, the WiFi will not work in ANY OS I've installed out-of-the-box, with the exception of a clean installation from the manjaro-arm-installer script. You need to download the brcmfmac43455 firmware blob (from a repo like this one) and copy them to /lib/firmware/brmc/ to get it functional.