PBP does not boot: broken boot partition
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Very peculiar....

I decided to try again but with a USB. This time, the light became green after about 25 seconds. However, screen was still black after another 3 min.

Then I tried the SD card again. But same result: only orange light.

Then I tried with both SD and USB plugged in, and the PBP booted successfully using the USB. I suspect that it was just a coincidence that both were plugged in, but odd indeed.

Not sure why PBP is not booting from SD card. The SD works with RPi4.

Also not sure why eMMC switch isn't working as expected. Is there another way to verify if there is something I can fix with that?

Correction... I just noticed that my system is using /boot from USB, but the root partition from SD card. I used etcher to create the devices, but not sure why this odd dependency has occurred! If I only have one of the two devices plugged in, it doesnt boot lol

Anyways, from here I can repair boot partition on emmc. Thanks!

ps, if there are steps I can apply for fix for emmc switch, please share


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RE: PBP does not boot: broken boot partition - by barn - 08-06-2020, 11:30 AM

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