Can't reinstall debian after breaking pre-installed OS
11-23-2019, 02:06 AM
(11-22-2019, 10:19 PM)crownest Wrote:(11-22-2019, 09:32 PM)Danct12 Wrote: I don't have a PBP, but can you switch TTY at the blank screen? Or it's just black screen with backlight on?
Seems to just be a blank screen with backlight. I am not sure how to switch to TTY on the system anyhow, but I am pretty sure it is just not responding.
Ctrl+Alt+F1 - F6 are the terminal TTYs, Ctrl+Alt+F7 gets you to X.
I'm skimming through mrfixit's first boot repartitioning script here and it's possible that it's getting confused by the labels on the emmc and sd partitions being identical and the script is failing because of that. I don't have any way to test it myself right now though. I'd try disabling your emmc (see the wiki for how, it's safe) and booting from a fresh debian sd card and I bet that'll get it up and running (after waiting for the first boot repartitioning to complete.) If that gets the sd image bootable and working then you can turn the emmc back on, boot from the sd and you'll be able to recover from there.
