Restore default Debian system

[FeMike]

I was looking for instructions like this. Everything worked as planned until I tried to reboot. Now the machine is stuck in a loop trying to boot. It never makes it to the boot screen. I can't even run the desktop from the SD now. Any clue as to what I can do?
Thanks.

Same thing here. In order to boot from the SD I needed to switch off the eMMC using the onboard switch. In order to do that you need to open up the bottom cover, look for the white switch to the left of eMMC (numbered 24 on the Pinebook Pro Internal Layout photo at https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/Pinebo..._Main_Page) and push it sideways into the off position. 

Now I can boot from the SD, but obviously still looking for the way to successfully flash default Debian system back to eMMC.

It's a known problem.


https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=8162
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=8163
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=8031

You can edit the SD card so that it boots with Debian installed on the eMMC.

You could switch the eMMC off, boot SD, then switch the eMMC back on.  However, opening up a computer that is powered up is generally a bad idea.

You could boot Ubuntu off SD, follow the instructions in the tutorial section to install it to eMMC, then boot Debian off SD, then install it to eMMC.

I too just recently followed the steps from cristobalhdez and it wont boot from emmc. Though I can boot debian from sdcard unlike the others. You mention in your last tip to follow the instructions in the tutorial section to install it to eMMC, where is this? The wiki? I cant find that there, just the link to MrFixit's Debian image. Mind sharing link or steps to do this if it's different from the steps that I followed in post #7? Thank you.

Edit: So I'm not sure what went wrong the first time but I tried it a second time and all is working.