can not boot pinebook pro from recent production run
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It is true that you won't be able to boot from micro-SD if the SPI ROM doesn't transfer boot, which is what's happening to you.

I haven't had to do this, but I expect you could short the appropriate pins on the SPI ROM chip so that it doesn't boot and boot to micro-sd (or eMMC). Otherwise yes, you'll have to to the mask ROM mode thing.

The only reason I mention DietPi is that I know it works. I found out the hard way that all the bootable micro-sd cards I made did not actually boot with a blank eMMC. So I went to the wiki and tried various images, and DietPi was the first one that worked. I was able to use that to zero the eMMC and then write U-boot and NetBSD to it. So if I were you, I'd put that DietPi micro-SD in, and short the appropriate pins on the SPI ROM. When the boot process starts, you can remove your short. Once booted, immediately zero the SPI ROM.
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RE: can not boot pinebook pro from recent production run - by KC9UDX - 10-22-2022, 04:14 AM

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