12-26-2023, 11:18 AM
Given it failed on an update I suspect that it is not a hardware issue, just something that was borked in the update.
There are a couple things we can check.
What software did you use on the laptop for the UART adaptor? What message did you get when you tried?
Otherwise did you ever change anything with the bootloader of the system? If not it should be possible to simply boot to an SD card with no additional changes.
Do you have access to a microSD card? Perhaps try getting a copy of, say mobian, https://images.mobian.org/pinetab2/weekly/ on an SD card and try to boot that up.
For getting mobian on the SD card, I recommend using bmaptool to copy it, it was significantly faster than using dd.
There are a couple things we can check.
What software did you use on the laptop for the UART adaptor? What message did you get when you tried?
Otherwise did you ever change anything with the bootloader of the system? If not it should be possible to simply boot to an SD card with no additional changes.
Do you have access to a microSD card? Perhaps try getting a copy of, say mobian, https://images.mobian.org/pinetab2/weekly/ on an SD card and try to boot that up.
For getting mobian on the SD card, I recommend using bmaptool to copy it, it was significantly faster than using dd.
