Manjaro ARM 19.12 Official Release - PineBook Pro

[mamboman777]

How frequently should my install be getting updates?  I've been using the updater through KDE discover and haven't had any for a while now.

You may need to switch to the new mirror list: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/another-mirr...red/132302

I just followed the instructions on the thread and now my Pinebook Pro will not boot.  It seemed as if the updates ran correctly from the terminal.  When I tried to reboot the only thing I get is a red light.  Can you please let me know what next steps might be in troubleshooting?

Ah sounds like this issue: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/arm-stable-u...s/133266/2

Great...I wish i knew that before I rebooted...I guess the solution is to pull the emmc and use the usb adapter.

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How frequently should my install be getting updates?  I've been using the updater through KDE discover and haven't had any for a while now.

You may need to switch to the new mirror list: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/another-mirr...red/132302

I just followed the instructions on the thread and now my Pinebook Pro will not boot.  It seemed as if the updates ran correctly from the terminal.  When I tried to reboot the only thing I get is a red light.  Can you please let me know what next steps might be in troubleshooting?

Ah sounds like this issue: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/arm-stable-u...s/133266/2

Great...I wish i knew that before I rebooted...I guess the solution is to pull the emmc and use the usb adapter.

I can confirm this fixed my issue.  My next question is, why on earth is this on the stable channel if it bricks systems?

[mamboman777]

Well...now booting from SD is an issue. Anyone know why that would be a problem now?

[mtlemmonrunner]

Well...now booting from SD is an issue.  Anyone know why that would be a problem now?

I think non-bootable SDs is known Manjaro issue you might want to look into the Manjaro forums searching the posts?  If not then I too would like to known the answer to your problem as I have it not working too.

[mamboman777]

Well...now booting from SD is an issue.  Anyone know why that would be a problem now?

I think non-bootable SDs is known Manjaro issue you might want to look into the Manjaro forums searching the posts?  If not then I too would like to known the answer to your problem as I have it not working too.

The work around is to roll back the U-Boot.  Look on the 1st page of this thread.  brent.thierens posted the fix.

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Well...now booting from SD is an issue.  Anyone know why that would be a problem now?

I think non-bootable SDs is known Manjaro issue you might want to look into the Manjaro forums searching the posts?  If not then I too would like to known the answer to your problem as I have it not working too.

The work around is to roll back the U-Boot.  Look on the 1st page of this thread.  brent.thierens posted the fix.

I'm wrong, it's this thread: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?...0#pid64250

[mtlemmonrunner]

Well...now booting from SD is an issue.  Anyone know why that would be a problem now?

I think non-bootable SDs is known Manjaro issue you might want to look into the Manjaro forums searching the posts?  If not then I too would like to known the answer to your problem as I have it not working too.

The work around is to roll back the U-Boot.  Look on the 1st page of this thread.  brent.thierens posted the fix.

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Well...now booting from SD is an issue.  Anyone know why that would be a problem now?

I think non-bootable SDs is known Manjaro issue you might want to look into the Manjaro forums searching the posts?  If not then I too would like to known the answer to your problem as I have it not working too.

The work around is to roll back the U-Boot.  Look on the 1st page of this thread.  brent.thierens posted the fix.

I'm wrong, it's this thread: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?...0#pid64250

I knew about the u-boot rollback trick and already applied it thanks.   I can boot some distros e.g. Q4OS, Debain, and Manjaro.  However I still can not boot some other distros e.g. Bionic Mate, Armbian, and Chromium.  Those that failed all booted with Debian on the eMMC.  Maybe its something on my end I would be interested if others are having any boot SD issues across more distros like I have done.  I should add that I'm using the latest Manjaro for these boot sd tests e.g. 20.04 download directly from Manjaro URLs.

[Eggmonkey]

Well...now booting from SD is an issue.  Anyone know why that would be a problem now?

I think non-bootable SDs is known Manjaro issue you might want to look into the Manjaro forums searching the posts?  If not then I too would like to known the answer to your problem as I have it not working too.

The work around is to roll back the U-Boot.  Look on the 1st page of this thread.  brent.thierens posted the fix.

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Well...now booting from SD is an issue.  Anyone know why that would be a problem now?

I think non-bootable SDs is known Manjaro issue you might want to look into the Manjaro forums searching the posts?  If not then I too would like to known the answer to your problem as I have it not working too.

The work around is to roll back the U-Boot.  Look on the 1st page of this thread.  brent.thierens posted the fix.

I'm wrong, it's this thread: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?...0#pid64250

I knew about the u-boot rollback trick and already applied it thanks.   I can boot some distros e.g. Q4OS, Debain, and Manjaro.  However I still can not boot some other distros e.g. Bionic Mate, Armbian, and Chromium.  Those that failed all booted with Debian on the eMMC.  Maybe its something on my end I would be interested if others are having any boot SD issues across more distros like I have done.  I should add that I'm using the latest Manjaro for these boot sd tests e.g. 20.04 download directly from Manjaro URLs.

Just to help, I'll explain the simple version of how I fixed the no-boot issue following the upgrade to Manjaro ARM 20.

You need to change this file before restarting as per the post: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/arm-stable-u...s/133266/2

If you forget to do this and it doesn't boot then download the (non-emmc install version) of Manjaro ARM live version here: https://osdn.net/projects/manjaro-arm/st...04.img.xz/

Then format an SD card to ext4 with Gparted and use BalenaEtcher to flash the image to the SD.
Restart the Pinebook with the SD card inside, create the user and password on the SD and when it boots in go to the ROOT filesystem of the EmmC itself and using Kate edit the /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf file and add 2 periods in front of each first slash. Save the file then shut the laptop down. Take the SD card out then restart the laptop as normal - it will boot fine.

I know this was simplistic, but I think it will give clarity to some about how to fix this issue simply and easily as there is a lot of misleading info out there on this. 
Hope it helps.

[mtlemmonrunner]

I think the process you are describing is for upgrading and fixing booting from eMMC for 19 to 20.04.

Are you saying this fixes booting from all other distros using SD card?


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[spikerguy]

I think the process you are describing is for upgrading and fixing booting from eMMC for 19 to 20.04.  

Are you saying this fixes booting from all other distros using SD card?


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No the above fix is only for upgrading from old releases as we are now using dual partition method for all the devices. 

To fix booting from other OS over sd is a fix needed to be implemented by the other OS maintainers.

[lxn]

Hi!

I tried getting help on the Manjaro forum with this post (https://forum.manjaro.org/t/cant-run-ima...ght/135853) but still couldn't get a solution for my problem, so I decided to try my luck here. Here's the problem:

I haven't been able to run the latest versions of Manjaro on the Pinebook Pro's eMMc.
Here's what happens with different installer eMMc images to the eMMc:

19.12 XFCE - installs, runs smoothly, updates to the latest version
19.12 KDE - installs, runs smoothly, updates to the latest version
20.02 XFCE and KDE - copies files from SD to eMMc, but on restart, no more than a black screen with orange light in the keyboard;
20.04 XFCE and KDE - same as version 20.02

Other aspects to this install failure:
- SD slot becomes unusable as well: can't boot anything from the SD
- only after removing the eMMc can I boot from the SD, but only an 8GB SD; i've tried two 32 GB SDs but they won't boot.

Other facts:
- SD installs of Manjaro do run fine, all of them
- I tried both dd and etcher to build the images
- I edited the file in /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf to include the two dots as instructed

[zaius]

No the above fix is only for upgrading from old releases as we are now using dual partition method for all the devices. 

To fix booting from other OS over sd is a fix needed to be implemented by the other OS maintainers.

So if I understand, you do not need to do the fix if you are installing Manjaro to eMMC when the eMMC has an OS other than Manjaro (eg. stock Debian), and the fix is only necessary if installing over an older Manjaro?

Then is there a way to boot current other OS from SD?