Manjaro ARM 19.12 Official Release - PineBook Pro

[Eggmonkey]

Well...now booting from SD is an issue.  Anyone know why that would be a problem now?

I think non-bootable SDs is known Manjaro issue you might want to look into the Manjaro forums searching the posts?  If not then I too would like to known the answer to your problem as I have it not working too.

The work around is to roll back the U-Boot.  Look on the 1st page of this thread.  brent.thierens posted the fix.

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Well...now booting from SD is an issue.  Anyone know why that would be a problem now?

I think non-bootable SDs is known Manjaro issue you might want to look into the Manjaro forums searching the posts?  If not then I too would like to known the answer to your problem as I have it not working too.

The work around is to roll back the U-Boot.  Look on the 1st page of this thread.  brent.thierens posted the fix.

I'm wrong, it's this thread: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?...0#pid64250

I knew about the u-boot rollback trick and already applied it thanks.   I can boot some distros e.g. Q4OS, Debain, and Manjaro.  However I still can not boot some other distros e.g. Bionic Mate, Armbian, and Chromium.  Those that failed all booted with Debian on the eMMC.  Maybe its something on my end I would be interested if others are having any boot SD issues across more distros like I have done.  I should add that I'm using the latest Manjaro for these boot sd tests e.g. 20.04 download directly from Manjaro URLs.

Just to help, I'll explain the simple version of how I fixed the no-boot issue following the upgrade to Manjaro ARM 20.

You need to change this file before restarting as per the post: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/arm-stable-u...s/133266/2

If you forget to do this and it doesn't boot then download the (non-emmc install version) of Manjaro ARM live version here: https://osdn.net/projects/manjaro-arm/st...04.img.xz/

Then format an SD card to ext4 with Gparted and use BalenaEtcher to flash the image to the SD.
Restart the Pinebook with the SD card inside, create the user and password on the SD and when it boots in go to the ROOT filesystem of the EmmC itself and using Kate edit the /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf file and add 2 periods in front of each first slash. Save the file then shut the laptop down. Take the SD card out then restart the laptop as normal - it will boot fine.

I know this was simplistic, but I think it will give clarity to some about how to fix this issue simply and easily as there is a lot of misleading info out there on this. 
Hope it helps.