06-03-2020, 12:27 AM
This sounds like you have some sort of hardware issue.
The Pinebook Pro doesn't normally behave like that.
I think I'd recommend sending Pine an email about that, if this doesn't help:
Booting from USB is not supported, but dd'ing an image to the SD card works reliably.
I have never had to use the eMMC switch and I would suggest you don't touch it (for the most part).
A serial cable would be nice to have now, so you could post more debug output (you don't happen to know how to solder and have a UART adapter and a 3.5mm headphone plug?).
Are you using high-quality SD cards? Please try with SanDisk Ultra, SanDisk Extreme or Samsung Evo/Evo Plus cards.
After you have a system running from SD card, you can download and dd your image from the running Linux system to the eMMC flash and it will get booted.
Good luck,
Tobias
The Pinebook Pro doesn't normally behave like that.
I think I'd recommend sending Pine an email about that, if this doesn't help:
Booting from USB is not supported, but dd'ing an image to the SD card works reliably.
I have never had to use the eMMC switch and I would suggest you don't touch it (for the most part).
A serial cable would be nice to have now, so you could post more debug output (you don't happen to know how to solder and have a UART adapter and a 3.5mm headphone plug?).
Are you using high-quality SD cards? Please try with SanDisk Ultra, SanDisk Extreme or Samsung Evo/Evo Plus cards.
After you have a system running from SD card, you can download and dd your image from the running Linux system to the eMMC flash and it will get booted.
Good luck,
Tobias