07-20-2020, 12:29 PM
(07-19-2020, 04:16 PM)TDC_PBP Wrote:(07-19-2020, 02:39 PM)polypode Wrote: A couple of months ago, I installed Manjaro 19 on my PBP. This install however, would not receive any updates. I finally figured out that the update server has been changed. So I corrected this and was able to manually upgrade to 20.4. At reboot however, I was stuck at the red LED and a black screen. I was still able to boot other distributions from SD though.As per the Pinebook Pro wiki on the Manjaro Arm EMMC Installer:
I now flashed the latest Manjaro 20.4 installer image to SD using etcher, inserted it and turned PBP on. LED would turn red then green, I can see the Manjaro bootlogo and the spinning circle but nothing else happens (waited a good 20 minutes).
Any idea what to do next ?
Thanks for your help,
Pitfall: When using the EMMC installer from SD card, you may get stuck on the bootsplash animation forever. But that's just the image masking the TUI (text mode user interface) installer. Just press escape after like some seconds or so, and you will have an easy-to-follow installer. See forum post: manjaro-arm-installer to eMMC.
Hope this helps!
Thank you this was part of the solution. I also had to re-flash the image to 16GB SD card. I used a 32GB card initially which was larger than the eMMC so the TUI installer would not find a suitable image. Manjaro up and running again.