Unable to make a bootable microSD card

[dachalife]

Guys, I’ve got one of the new PBP’s and it is bootable from the sdcard. I don’t care for Manjaro, so I went to the Kali site and downloaded their latest image and proceeded from there; they have an online guide if you want to look through it.

A few hours later I was up and running with Kali on the eMMC and didn’t mess with the spiflash; still running u-boot until I learn more about the options (That’s why I made a poll here).

I did have to try a few different sdcards to get one to work, never buy cheap sd cards from a grocery store, lesson learned (it was the closest shop). Balena on windows also had more failures with the sdcards than Linux. I verified the images & after the installation, hit the wifi problem, but that was solved soon enough.

At the moment, I’ve had a stable PBP since about 10 hours after delivery, have another os ready if needed on a usb drive which I can boot from through the u-boot menu & a sdcard for extra storage.

I’ve been using it daily for work 4-9 hours a day, weekdays and also as a testing device in my classes (os on a usb drive, kernel: 5.18.0-kali5-arm64).

So far it has survived my students and the staff checking it out/playing with it & I have no real complaints, except the fingerprints & a few stickers on the lid fixed that.