This was a very helpful post. I might suggest noting something that took a while to sink in with me ...
The 'look for mmcblk2, and don't use boot0 or boot1' ....when the designations are mmcblk2boot0 and mmcblk2boot1. To clarify to morons like myself , it might be 'look for "mmcblk2" .... and not "mmcblk2boot0" and "mmcblk2boot1", as those are mounted partitions'.
It would probably make sense for the flasher to only list USEABLE devices, and simply not show mounted devices/partitions.
Such is the life of a NOOB. :-) I know these devices are development machines, and is a bit of a jump for true LINUX NOOBS .... but the cost sucks you in! ;-) That being said ... I'm, not a total beginner, but there are SO many nuances between different platforms, that it gets very co
Anyway ... nfusing.
Kudos to Manjaro! I was getting pretty frustrated with the PBPro for a while, until I tried the Manjaro-ARM distribution. It seemed to be a much more well developed flavor, to actually be USEABLE, while I played around with different software and AUR apps.
Anyway, but dilemma of the day is, I'm trying to get a close-to-PBPro Manjaro image on my PineTAB. I know they are different devices, and PineTAB development lags, but I would like to get the 2 as close together as possible (and along with the PinePhone! :-) . My current PBPro instaill is:
KDE Plasma Ver: 5.21.1
KDE Frameworks Ver: 5.80.0
Kernel Version 6.7.19-1-MANJARO-ARM
When attempting to usemanjaro-arm-flasher on an SD card with an existing PineTAB distro on it .... the SD card doesn't show up in the flasher's Target Block Device list ... only my mmcblk2boot0 and ....boot1. When I plug the SD card in, the BOOT_MNJRO volume shows up with an option to Mount and Open. The SD card shows up with an fdisk -l command as:
Disk /dev/mmcblk1: 29.16 GiB, 31312576512 bytes, 61157376 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xfda654c1
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/mmcblk1p1 62500 500000 437501 213.6M c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/mmcblk1p2 500001 61157375 60657375 28.9G 83 Linux
.... but does not show up in the flasher's Target Block Device list ... if it is mounted, or not.
What am I missing?
Thank you in advance!
Dennis
I solved my own problem ... I guess .... Once I downloaded and used gparted to delete the partitions on the SD card, stopped and re-started manjaro-arm-flasher .... the "mmcblk1' bock device showed up, and allowed my to download an image.
But .... shouldn't have "mmcblk1boot0" and "mmcblk1boot1" have shown up as options, like the mmcblk2boot0 and ....boot1 did?
The 'look for mmcblk2, and don't use boot0 or boot1' ....when the designations are mmcblk2boot0 and mmcblk2boot1. To clarify to morons like myself , it might be 'look for "mmcblk2" .... and not "mmcblk2boot0" and "mmcblk2boot1", as those are mounted partitions'.
It would probably make sense for the flasher to only list USEABLE devices, and simply not show mounted devices/partitions.
Such is the life of a NOOB. :-) I know these devices are development machines, and is a bit of a jump for true LINUX NOOBS .... but the cost sucks you in! ;-) That being said ... I'm, not a total beginner, but there are SO many nuances between different platforms, that it gets very co
Anyway ... nfusing.
Kudos to Manjaro! I was getting pretty frustrated with the PBPro for a while, until I tried the Manjaro-ARM distribution. It seemed to be a much more well developed flavor, to actually be USEABLE, while I played around with different software and AUR apps.
Anyway, but dilemma of the day is, I'm trying to get a close-to-PBPro Manjaro image on my PineTAB. I know they are different devices, and PineTAB development lags, but I would like to get the 2 as close together as possible (and along with the PinePhone! :-) . My current PBPro instaill is:
KDE Plasma Ver: 5.21.1
KDE Frameworks Ver: 5.80.0
Kernel Version 6.7.19-1-MANJARO-ARM
When attempting to usemanjaro-arm-flasher on an SD card with an existing PineTAB distro on it .... the SD card doesn't show up in the flasher's Target Block Device list ... only my mmcblk2boot0 and ....boot1. When I plug the SD card in, the BOOT_MNJRO volume shows up with an option to Mount and Open. The SD card shows up with an fdisk -l command as:
Disk /dev/mmcblk1: 29.16 GiB, 31312576512 bytes, 61157376 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xfda654c1
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/mmcblk1p1 62500 500000 437501 213.6M c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/mmcblk1p2 500001 61157375 60657375 28.9G 83 Linux
.... but does not show up in the flasher's Target Block Device list ... if it is mounted, or not.
What am I missing?
Thank you in advance!
Dennis
I solved my own problem ... I guess .... Once I downloaded and used gparted to delete the partitions on the SD card, stopped and re-started manjaro-arm-flasher .... the "mmcblk1' bock device showed up, and allowed my to download an image.
But .... shouldn't have "mmcblk1boot0" and "mmcblk1boot1" have shown up as options, like the mmcblk2boot0 and ....boot1 did?
Dennis Hoshield
PBPro/ANSI/Manjaro
PBPro/ANSI/Manjaro