PP boots into factory test even if flashed sd card is inserted

[hapster]

hmm the steps you executed seem fine (the zap and shutdown aren't really needed, but don't harm in this case). Either the pinephone somehow has issues reading the SD card or something is going wrong with flashing.

If it boots into factorytest it means it didn't load the u-boot from the sdcard so it used u-boot from the eMMC which boots factorytest if it hasn't been overwritten.

do you see 2 partitions on the sd card after puttting postmarketOS on it? it should have a small boot partition and a larger rootfs.

Thanks for your very quick reply, much appreciated.

So, I can see both partitions after having flashed the sd card. Is there a test I can run to check if all necessary files have been written to the sd card?
Also, the sd card was newly purchased, that is, it has not been used prior to its usage for the pinephone.

Note that I was unable to access the pinephone's internal storage via gparted. I figured that if I formatted internal storage, then the pinephone will be forced to read from sd. But, since the internal storage wasnt recognised in gparted, and I was unable to mount it in the file managet (where it does show!), I couldn't do this.

Any idea what could be the problem or what I might do to troubleshoot?

Greetings