09-01-2020, 10:07 PM
(09-01-2020, 07:57 PM)thisishuey Wrote: Hi, hoping I can get a little help. I just received my PinePhone today and was trying to get Mobian running on it. I believe I've done all the steps correctly, downloaded the image, flashed it to an SD card with belenaEtcher on Windows 10, popped it into the SD slot on the PinePhone and turn it on. The green status light turns on but then it's just blank. I've let it sit for "a while" (don't have exact time) thinking there might be something running in the background. Originally I used a 64gb SD card, I swapped it out for an 8gb card, both are exactly the same behavior. Did I miss a step? What is supposed to happen right after I flash the card on first boot, should it boot up instantly or is it going to take a while to do something? Maybe I'm being impatient but I expected something to show up even it it was just a prompt of some sort. Any tips?With the last few batches a few of us encountered a similar problem. I believe we all got it working again through various methods. Read some of the threads regarding blank screen on boot in various os sub forums. Im sure one of the posted answers will work for you. From my experience i believe the bootloader automatically chooses sd card over emmc but if there was any corruption on your sd card, or maybe even its not in right, it can cause the bootloader to try booting from the sd using the bios in a partition of the emmc and get stuck when it encounters the issue, corrupting the original emmc. There could also be a software issue in the bootloader as Ive noticed it even picks the emmc on some random occassions instead of the SD, which i know its not supposed to. I Believe putting a freshly flashed sd with your os of choice and pressing some combination of power and volume buttons will get it to boot from the new SD. Once it boots up the pinephone will correct whatever corruption you caused the emmc image.
