09-24-2020, 09:55 AM
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I took out the computer from Hell PBP today.
The last time I forgot to mention that it didn’t do anything when it wasn’t plugged in and battery power showed 98%.
Today I wanted to start up again and NOTHING!
Took the back cover off, switched the emmc switch to the other position, took out the SD card and NOTHING!
Then, I pressed the “Reset” botton.
When there is no SD card plugged in and the emmc switch is in the emmc position, it started to boot from emmc and of course asked for username/password crap.
Then, plugged in the SD card and NOTHING.
Took out the SD card and NOTHING.
Again, I’ll have to take the cover off, push the “Reset” button and I’m sure it will want to boot again into the emmc, as it did before.
By the way, when I set it up the first time, the username or password was “rock/rock”.
I CHANGED that to what I wanted to be but when the final page came up in the setup process, showing what I typed in for username/password, etc., the “rock/rock” DID NOT CHANGE to what I typed in.
I DO NOT want to use the emmc but the SD card as the emmc “straps” me down. I want an operating system that I can change instantly, which is the operating system on an SD card today. USB would be preferred though.
I am not anal about “security” and “privacy” crap either, because both of them are nothing but ILLUSIONS. None of them exist today.
Even if the computer would start up from emmc, I would want to change it to SD card boot-up. So, being unable to pass by the username/password block is meaningless. I don’t want emmc but SD.
Is there any boot-up info on the emmc, so it is necessary to have it installed, even when booting from SD?
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“Paulie420”
Thanks for your input!
You are absolutely right; “for me, the PBP is less of a tinker toy and more of an ARM based laptop to be used and compatible WITH my tinker toys. (Raspberry Pi projects, etc.)”
FYI
I read or heard it somewhere, that if you chose to install the package that boots the Pi from USB, if something goes wrong, the Pi becomes useless.
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I wanted to have a fully operational linux laptop, to get away from that damnable, inferior windows monstrosity. The Raspberry Pi did that but it is not a laptop machine. If I would be able to THROW OUT the rock board that doesn’t rock at all and install the Pi, I would not hesitate for a moment.
One can’t do too much with the PBP, as far as hardware hacking goes. The Raspberry Pi is really the platform for hardware hackings and projects.
I’m going to try to etch (Yes, with Balena etcher) another SD card but as of now, the long awaited PBP is collecting dust...until I go out and do some target shooting.
Thanks again for everybody who had or has any meaningful input to solve this problem...if solvable.
I took out the computer from Hell PBP today.
The last time I forgot to mention that it didn’t do anything when it wasn’t plugged in and battery power showed 98%.
Today I wanted to start up again and NOTHING!
Took the back cover off, switched the emmc switch to the other position, took out the SD card and NOTHING!
Then, I pressed the “Reset” botton.
When there is no SD card plugged in and the emmc switch is in the emmc position, it started to boot from emmc and of course asked for username/password crap.
Then, plugged in the SD card and NOTHING.
Took out the SD card and NOTHING.
Again, I’ll have to take the cover off, push the “Reset” button and I’m sure it will want to boot again into the emmc, as it did before.
By the way, when I set it up the first time, the username or password was “rock/rock”.
I CHANGED that to what I wanted to be but when the final page came up in the setup process, showing what I typed in for username/password, etc., the “rock/rock” DID NOT CHANGE to what I typed in.
I DO NOT want to use the emmc but the SD card as the emmc “straps” me down. I want an operating system that I can change instantly, which is the operating system on an SD card today. USB would be preferred though.
I am not anal about “security” and “privacy” crap either, because both of them are nothing but ILLUSIONS. None of them exist today.
Even if the computer would start up from emmc, I would want to change it to SD card boot-up. So, being unable to pass by the username/password block is meaningless. I don’t want emmc but SD.
Is there any boot-up info on the emmc, so it is necessary to have it installed, even when booting from SD?
*******
“Paulie420”
Thanks for your input!
You are absolutely right; “for me, the PBP is less of a tinker toy and more of an ARM based laptop to be used and compatible WITH my tinker toys. (Raspberry Pi projects, etc.)”
FYI
I read or heard it somewhere, that if you chose to install the package that boots the Pi from USB, if something goes wrong, the Pi becomes useless.
********
I wanted to have a fully operational linux laptop, to get away from that damnable, inferior windows monstrosity. The Raspberry Pi did that but it is not a laptop machine. If I would be able to THROW OUT the rock board that doesn’t rock at all and install the Pi, I would not hesitate for a moment.
One can’t do too much with the PBP, as far as hardware hacking goes. The Raspberry Pi is really the platform for hardware hackings and projects.
I’m going to try to etch (Yes, with Balena etcher) another SD card but as of now, the long awaited PBP is collecting dust...until I go out and do some target shooting.
Thanks again for everybody who had or has any meaningful input to solve this problem...if solvable.