PBP does not start from postmarket OS image burnt to sd card

[zkajdan]

@tophneal you mean this, right: https://pine64.com/product/pinebook-pro-...hd-camera/  - not this: https://pine64.com/product/pinebook-pro-bottom-case/, right?  (The latter's out of stock anyway.)

Oops definitely tried to juggle too much other stuff when posting and mixed those up lol

I would definitely suggest revisiting fedora on your other PBP if you can get it reliably booting again, the process is sooooo much simpler now. That forum post is outdated now. I was able to get it going on mine just by writing the official install img to SD and booting from it once I had TowBoot installed. I think at most I needed to add a copr repo to fill in some of the more specific gaps in support from the img. That may not even be needed now

Thanks @tophneal ! 

Yes, I was wanting to do exactly that (install fedora again), but there's the hardware problem... I am trying to install TowBoot there, as also recommended by @tllim in the  post dedicated to that issue (https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=19708), but when I get it to start once in a time (every 10th press or so) I get a message scrolling through infinitely - it may be that from TowBoot in fact, it's something ending in "flash to SPI"... But I can't react to that message...

Do you have advice for me?

(And just to clearly understand, so the spare-parts-thing does not apply, right? There is no replacement for these plastic parts I broke?)

Many thanks again!!