killed my pinebook pro with my pinephone

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Well so far no luck. the debian version would not boot at all. Manjaro 20.06 does give me a green power light but no boot screen. So im gonna try another version.

I was in a similar predicament as you.  I had installed Kali Linux on my eMMC and after an update the PBP was dead.  The light would come on red and then nothing.  I could not boot to SD for any distro and the USB boot did not work. I really did not feel comfortable trying to open the case and do the eMMC switch start procedure. Partially because I felt the risk of breaking it was high and partially because my two cats believe themselves to be tech savy and always come to assist.

I ordered this from Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LHJ...UTF8&psc=1

It was 5 dollars and another 4 to ship it and it came in three days in the mail.  Once I got it, I locked the cats out of the bedroom (lol).  Then I turned the PBP over and removed the 10 screws from the back.  The eMMC was easy to spot and popped right out.  I placed it on this eMMC reader and put it in my other computer.  I flashed Mr.Fixit's original Debian build to the eMMC using Balena Etcher.  I put it back into the PBP and it booted right up.  The eMMC adapter is an extremely helpful device to have around.

In any case, Good Luck! and I hope you resolve your problem.

I had more or less the same issue, and I solved it the same way! Buying the USB to eMMC adapter and using it to flash to the eMMC directly with another computer!

 Tnx guys for all tips. sofar ive tried several options. manjaro in different versions. Would not boot, did give me a green power light. Ubuntu bionic and arch, did nothing, same goes for android. But!! i tried fedora and it booted. So no i have fedora working from sd. Then i tried the command to unbind/bind emmc but it said with the first command that no such file was available. After that i unpacked the img.xz copied it to the pinebook. Extracting on the pinebook gave me problems cause i ran out of space. So i did it on my pc and copied it to an usb. Then did sudo dd if=name of distro of=/dev/mmcblk1 status=progress. install went ok. Rebooted and nothing ;-) so i think i did not install it to the emmc. After that fedora would not boot. reinstalled fedora with etcher (working again on the pinebook pro). Still stuck but at least with a bootable operating system (very slow btw). I will order the emmc adapter but still think it should be fixable without it.

echo fe330000.sdhci >/sys/bus/platform/drivers/sdhci-arasan/unbind (this command gave me no such file....)