06-11-2020, 11:28 PM
(06-11-2020, 10:58 AM)mlentink Wrote:(06-01-2020, 11:32 PM)charlespine Wrote:Would you have used the eMMC-USB adapter if you had one? I soft-bricked my pbp and just ordered one. I can do without the pbp for a couple of weeks, as it wasn't my daily driver anyway (though with Ayufans Focal build, it sort of was becoming one, it's that good. In fact, I was flashing it to the eMMC when I must've done something wrong.(05-29-2020, 03:54 PM)dead Wrote: I am using Manjaro and a few days ago updated u-boot to latest version. The instructions from pacman included some `dd` commands to run post install, and after running them and rebooting the machine I was no longer able to boot back up. Black screen, so I can't see any error message.
Did I brick my device? is it possible for me to fix it in any way other than full re-install of the OS?
Do I need to connect it to UART maybe to see what the error message is?
Thanks!
Arwen is correct!
Something similar happened to me. I was able to resurrect my May 2020 Pinebook using Arwen's info plus the details here:
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?...2#pid54312
I had to open up my laptop first and disable the eMMC. Then I booted of Ayufan's 0.9.14, did the 2 second switch trick, and was able to DD 0.9.14 into my eMMC. Now, everything is working well and I can also boot into other OS's using the MicroSD slot.
Charles
I was also thinking that I would have to buy the eMMC-USB adapter. As mentioned by the last poster, it's not needed. Also, I didn't use the unbind/bind commands. I was able to detect using lsblk and then flashed to the eMMC. Since then, I've tested a wide variety of images and decided to go back to the factory PBP version of Manjaro (not the ones offered from the PBP Wiki or Manjaro site) since it's very stable. It works well after blocking a firmware update and doing some tweaks mentioned in the wiki.