06-28-2020, 07:15 AM
hello everyone,
the issue is, that the PBP is not booting anymore.
In January I replaced the default Debian with Manjaro on emmc. Everything worked fine in XFCE version. The KDE version regulary crashed the desktop and reloaded desktop. In March, when I got back to the device (was away for two months), i run several updates which were suggested by the system. After reboot Manjaro (red power led) did not boot anymore. Also any SD-Images is not booting anymore. As I remember there was never a questions by Manjaro to prefer boot from emmc.
I tried all 3 Manjaro 20.06 iso (XFCE, KDE, i3) also I tried emmc on or off. The result is the same (so I think it does not try to boot from emmc).
The results were following:
Images of Manjaro started booting but after showing Manjaro sign it switches to Terminal and show that there is a problem with journal and it tries to remount read-only.
When I shutdown and restart it stucks at red button and never get green.
Images of other Distributions (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Suse,...) do not boot at all. The red light is not evening showing anything - like no sd-card in inserted.
I tried 3 different sd cards and also 3 different devices to create images (one notebook with cardreader and two PC with external card reader). When I reinsert the sdcards after failing to boot from Pinebook, the sdcards are not recognized and valid stick and I had to reset them with SD-Formatter in Windows (gparted did not work with the sdcards after they were in the PBP). Booting from USB Stick is not happend (does not even show red light). I spend some weekends when I had time to ticker around with it.
I think the sd-card-slot is broken, but I am not sure. I am really, really frustrated right now
Before I throw the PBP into trash, I look for new ideas (and I do not intend to buy an emmc-adapter as long as I do not know, if nothing else is broken - hard enough the nvme adapter was wasted money (like the PBP itselft) at the moment).
the issue is, that the PBP is not booting anymore.
In January I replaced the default Debian with Manjaro on emmc. Everything worked fine in XFCE version. The KDE version regulary crashed the desktop and reloaded desktop. In March, when I got back to the device (was away for two months), i run several updates which were suggested by the system. After reboot Manjaro (red power led) did not boot anymore. Also any SD-Images is not booting anymore. As I remember there was never a questions by Manjaro to prefer boot from emmc.
I tried all 3 Manjaro 20.06 iso (XFCE, KDE, i3) also I tried emmc on or off. The result is the same (so I think it does not try to boot from emmc).
The results were following:
Images of Manjaro started booting but after showing Manjaro sign it switches to Terminal and show that there is a problem with journal and it tries to remount read-only.
When I shutdown and restart it stucks at red button and never get green.
Images of other Distributions (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Suse,...) do not boot at all. The red light is not evening showing anything - like no sd-card in inserted.
I tried 3 different sd cards and also 3 different devices to create images (one notebook with cardreader and two PC with external card reader). When I reinsert the sdcards after failing to boot from Pinebook, the sdcards are not recognized and valid stick and I had to reset them with SD-Formatter in Windows (gparted did not work with the sdcards after they were in the PBP). Booting from USB Stick is not happend (does not even show red light). I spend some weekends when I had time to ticker around with it.
I think the sd-card-slot is broken, but I am not sure. I am really, really frustrated right now
Before I throw the PBP into trash, I look for new ideas (and I do not intend to buy an emmc-adapter as long as I do not know, if nothing else is broken - hard enough the nvme adapter was wasted money (like the PBP itselft) at the moment).