09-30-2020, 08:57 AM
(09-28-2020, 05:00 PM)Paulie420 Wrote: Hello team Pine64:
I hope that this small write-up has relevance and information that will help newcomers to the land of PBP who want to experiment with other operating softwares on the platform. I've been reading many horror stories of Pinebook Pro's that were damaged, or that the owner THINKS are damaged because they won't boot properly... after a user found themselves with an inoperable OS on their internal eMMC storage.
It seems that once a rookie user has an issue with their eMMC the first thing they do is open the laptop and flip the reset button next to the eMMC storage. This isn't always necessary. I wanted to go over how I reinstalled the original [or updated, if you have an older version of the PBP] Manjaro OS back onto the eMMC without opening the system. From what I can gather, you can certainly open the system and access the internals to get things done - and in some cases this needs to happen... but I'd be willing to bet that in most rookie scenerios, this isn't the case.
This is excellent advice, but it seems there are things you can do accidentally that leave your Pinebook in a state that breaks even booting from SD.
See my recent post: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=11678
After flailing around a bit trying to get sleep to work (I'm now pretty sure it's not software at all but the mis-positioned magnet problem) if I leave the emmc enabled, I can't even boot from SD. I just get that baleeful orange light and it stays on forever.
If I disable emmc, I can boot from SD just fine.
Thanks for all your helpful write-ups!
