09-20-2023, 10:00 AM
(09-19-2023, 03:00 PM)donchurch Wrote: Greetings,
IDK if this thread is dead but I'm a used to be slacker, now running Devuan, avoiding the evil systemd binary path.
I'm also a frustrated Pinephone owner that's looking for something better and stumbled across the activity here.
My latest stuggle is with PostmarketOS. I have it running from the microsd card since for some reason their installation image, after completing the install, on first boot would lock up with an error stating that the file system was read only so it couldn't write the user files if I'm not mistaken.
And so I wrote the latest Slarm64 image to the microsd and edited the files (I'm pretty sure according to Mara's readme) from my PC. I adjusted the mmcblk number to 0 since that's what PMOS labels the booted microsd. I also then tried to flag the partition as bootable using GParted from the PC. When starting the boot process the green led comes on for a few seconds then nothing.
I have the little docking station and external monitor plus may be able to rig a serial cable if I do a little research on the subject. I have time to test also so if you guys are game, I'm game to give it a go as a tinkerer.
PMOS has a separate boot partition and I noticed that the Pinephone (at least mine) has three other labeled mmcblk2boot0, mmcblk2boot1 and zram0.
I also tried to write the Slarm64 image to the internal memory using PMOS but my permission was lacking.
I seem to have toasted the microsd because after I set the boot flag and tried to boot from it and failed, I can no longer get acknowledgement of its existence on my PC anymore. Luckily I have a spare and will order a few more. I'm going to snoop around for another OS to try and get on the internal drive in the mean time.
You need to look at the output on the uart, in theory it’s still the same A64 with all the circumstances that arise.