Broken Boot

[djhnsn]

>Standard installs/image for the PBP place their uboots on the emmc/sd, within their /boot
Actually, not in /boot, in the 1st 16M, not formated, no FS, raw bytes at specific offset
Sometimes (manjaro) the idbloader and uboot are 'dumped' in /boot,,
for you to MANUALLY give the appropriate dd commands (to copy to 1st 16M)
This for an update, 99% have these files in the correct place in the image
If you run fdisk on the image (uncompressed) you will see first partition is 16M or more in from beginning
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Do be sure to hold power button 20+s, 18 will not do, OR try a different sd or distro
20s=hard reset,, 8s=hard power off, always try 8s 1st

I am flashing these images with balena etcher not dd. Could this be my issue? The images do have  /boot. 

I literally just got this device yesterday, so I apologize if that is a noob move.