09-20-2020, 04:51 PM
First, the password problem was probably a locale problem. Because the password is hidden you don't realise that you're pressing the "wrong" keys. But it's too late to worry about that.
You *do* sometimes have to remove the eMMC to boot from SD. The SD boot priority is lower than the eMMC by default. But in this case, since the eMMC was booting, it shouldn't have been necessary.
Slow down and be patient; it's easy to bugger things up on these machines, and unbuggering them is simple if you really know what you're doing. But if you don't really know what you're doing, is eat to get it wrong.
You *do* sometimes have to remove the eMMC to boot from SD. The SD boot priority is lower than the eMMC by default. But in this case, since the eMMC was booting, it shouldn't have been necessary.
Slow down and be patient; it's easy to bugger things up on these machines, and unbuggering them is simple if you really know what you're doing. But if you don't really know what you're doing, is eat to get it wrong.