New guy... Need some help...

[Coryoc]

Hey,

So I purchased a pinebook pro to start messing around with linux more.

I have some basic understanding, but I've already been thrown something beyond my ability.

So I booted it up, and did the updates it was requesting. After this update on reboot, nothing. Green power light but no activity or screen.

After looking around, it seemed that I needed to reinstall the OS.

So after looking around more, it seems the path was to use the switch to disable the emmc, boot onto a live SD card, then re-enable the emmc and install the os to it.

I've gotten to that point, however my problem now is I can't select the emmc to install to. It just wants to do the default install using the SD card.

I tried to follow these instructions:

Once everything has booted cleanly turn the eMMC switch on the back in order to turn it on, effectively hot plugging it.
Then as super user (sudo) use these commands in a terminal, which are also referred in the Wiki:

Code:

Code:

echo fe330000.sdhci >/sys/bus/platform/drivers/sdhci-arasan/unbind



echo fe330000.sdhci >/sys/bus/platform/drivers/sdhci-arasan/bind

Then install whatever you want on the eMMC as usual.

However I need a password for the sudo privileges and I don't have that on the live OS.

Can anyone help an absolute newb out?