Novice question: Pinebook Pro does boot (does it?) but black screen
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Back here faster then I expected.



I took a microSD-card from a phone I forgot I had lying around, so that solved one problem. Next I downloaded the Debian Desktop Community Build Image [microSD to eMMC] by mrfixit2001, flashed it to the microSD-card with Etcher using a USB-to-SD-adapter as well as a SD-to-microSD-adapter.



With the card inserted I powered the PBP on and it booted up.  At first a very scrambled image of the Debian logo was visible for a little while, then the device seemed to power off (orange led) and the on again (green led) but now with a also very scrambled image, this time 14 x the Pine64 logo. The green led did blink sometimes, mostly not.



I left it for about an hour, but no change so far.



I used CTRL Alt F1 and did seem tot get into a terminal, at least that´s what I think it was, it could not be read as there were only lines of white dots instead of text.


Typing sudo shutdown with password rock didn´t do much, so in the end I pushed the on/off button to power the PBP off.



So far its been a ´1 step forward, 2 steps back´ kind of story, but at least steps are being made.



Anyway, as always any help will be much appreciated.
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RE: Novice question: Pinebook Pro does boot (does it?) but black screen - by Gert V. - 12-22-2020, 06:12 AM

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