08-21-2021, 03:02 PM
(08-21-2021, 08:16 AM)KC9UDX Wrote: I think your "notta" should be "nada"...Thank you for the quick replies. As for writing the image to my SD card, I've been using Etcher on my Windows computer. I was wondering about the whole writing it with the DD commands and was going to try that after work.
Anyway, I don't know what you switched, but it seems like you did not switch off the eMMC. But don't worry about that right now, you don't need to switch it off. And your SD card is not imaged correctly. Your PBP *does* power up when you have the SD card in, but nothing is running to turn the power light on. You need a bootable image specific for SD card; the wiki has links for valid images. Then you need to write it to the card correctly. I suggest hopefully the wiki tells how to do this because the way I do it, with command "dd" is probably not the way you will. If that is how you are doing it, just make sure to write to the card itself, not a partition.
The card must have first, boot code, in our case U-Boot, next a FAT partition called for U-boot to read, next usually whatever your operating system needs. This is important. If those first two things are not at the very start of the card, and not aligned properly, the PBP will not boot, and again, the power light will not be turned on, because it is only turned on by software.
(08-21-2021, 02:38 PM)jiyong Wrote: When you don't need the contents on your eMMC, you can try to find a USB adapter for the eMMC and write a new image to it.
I don't know if Fedora uses a different U-Boot, but that can also be an issue.
I also have experienced the issue that sometimes the micro SD card only boots from a restart, not from cold boot.
But I guess that can also be different dependent on the various U-Boots.
Once Fedora has loaded, try pressing CTRL + ALT + DEL and see if you can reboot.
Perhaps you also need to press the Fn key, as DEL has no dedicated key on the Pinebook Pro and shares the key with Backspace.
Perhaps you will start the micro SD card from that point.
Which distro did you write to the micro SD card?
Like I stated earlier. I will have to try the restart way when I get off work, but as for the distro, I've tried a handful of them. Manjaro, Fedora, that DietPi even
