eMMC on Pinebook Pro

[decisivedove]

Hi,
I was just curious to know whether eMMC chips not from PINE64 which are greater than 128 GB will work on the Pinebook Pro. 

Also, is there any way to dual boot 2 Linux distros (the default Debian and Manjaro) on the eMMC?

[tophneal]

Hard to say. I've heard of people using eMMC readers from HardKernel with Pine64 eMMCs, but I'd be cautious of them being drop in replacements, as there are likely differences between them, like all other eMMCs.

Not currently, there's no way to select which you want to boot from. Currently the best solution (with a 50/50 chance) would be to flash a uboot to your SPI, put one OS on the eMMC and another on an NVMe, and use the eMMC switch to determine which boots.

In all honesty, if you want more space than you can get from the 128GB eMMC, you should just get an NVMe. The cost/space will be much better.

[wdt]

@decisivedove
>which are greater than 128 GB
Where please?

Boot menu,, I have been searching, quite a while
If you had a raspberry, berry boot,, but rasp has a ...unique... boot chain
So far, none of the menu.c32 modules that I have found are aarch64,
they are all 80386, every one that I can find
Maybe this will work, let us know
https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?t=26894
--edit-- emmc5.0 or 5.1, HS400, nothing less

[xmixahlx]

the easiest selection method right now is using separate micro sd cards with different installs.

you can edit the bootloader and reboot into a different system, although there are limitations and necessary setup easy to screw up with manual editing and get a non-bootable system instead.

[wdt]

IOW the PBP is a time machine too, returns us to the 80's

Just tried again, Buster aarch64,, it did say common, 80386, grrr
This is not to say video would be working yet.......

[decisivedove]

the easiest selection method right now is using separate micro sd cards with different installs.

you can edit the bootloader and reboot into a different system, although there are limitations and necessary setup easy to screw up with manual editing and get a non-bootable system instead.

Is there anyway to use GRUB on ARM?

[wdt]

>Is there anyway to use GRUB on ARM?

Did you not check the odroid link?
Like I said,, let us know

[decisivedove]

>Is there anyway to use GRUB on ARM?

Did you not check the odroid link?
Like  I said,, let us know

I have not checked it out yet. Will check it out. I think I might start another post for GRUB on PBP.

[tophneal]

>Is there anyway to use GRUB on ARM?

Did you not check the odroid link?
Like  I said,, let us know

I have not checked it out yet. Will check it out. I think I might start another post for GRUB on PBP.

Please do a search instead. There is already at least one thread about running GRUB with u-boot on the PBP.

[decisivedove]

>Is there anyway to use GRUB on ARM?

Did you not check the odroid link?
Like  I said,, let us know

I have not checked it out yet. Will check it out. I think I might start another post for GRUB on PBP.

Please do a search instead. There is already at least one thread about running GRUB with u-boot on the PBP.

Ok I will. The UI on mobile is not intuitive to use e.g. the search. Maybe that is something which should be worked on while maintaining the website. Nothing much, just add like a search textbox and button on the top of the page for search in the mobile interface.