My short experience with Manjaro Plasma Mobile

[mruser1]

Code:

pacman -Syu

was the first and the last command I run on the shipped manjaro install. It seems to be a natural starter command for more of us. I can imagine it is not meant to work, however I do not remember ever being warned about it. I am finding this issue after fact. What could be done to help users avoid this pitfall?

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Hello

I installed Tow-Boot and I tried an installer of another distribution but it didn't work, I get a black screen. By the way, I have used the Pinephone as a daily driver for two years.

I had a problem very much like that (i.e. stuck on the K& gear logo). I finally got it to work when I got a new microSD card. I flashed JumpDrive to it from a different device. When inserted into the Pine Phone Jumpdrive booted from the card, and I was able to able to get archlinux-pinephone-phosh-20220729.img flashed to and running from the eMMC. So, that's nice, now I can turn on and use the phone; still have other trouble, though.

This jumpdrive trick was new to me, thanks for the pointer! Let me just leave a link here to https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Jumpdrive to make it more explicit.