Is there a MMC upgrade instruction from debian-mate to manjaro factory (20.06)?

[pljanson]

Hi all,

Is there a clear instruction how to upgrade an 1st batch Pinebook Pro with original (Debian-Mate) OS on MMC to the new factory Manjaro or 20.06?
I've already tried manjaro 20.02 and 20.06 on SD and there are fine, so I like to update it to MMC to free up the SD slot.

Another option would be to install it on the SSD and boot from MMC to SSD, but I haven't found a real clear up to date instruction yet.
Or can we have a multiboot bootloader on MMC?

Regards Paul

[TDC_PBP]

Hi all,

Is there a clear instruction how to upgrade an 1st batch Pinebook Pro with original (Debian-Mate) OS on MMC to the new factory Manjaro or 20.06?
I've already tried manjaro 20.02 and 20.06 on SD and there are fine, so I like to update it to MMC to free up the SD slot.

Another option would be to install it on the SSD and boot from MMC to SSD, but I haven't found a real clear up to date instruction yet.
Or can we have a multiboot bootloader on MMC?

Regards Paul

That's easy-just download the Manjaro MicroSD to EMMC installer from here: https://osdn.net/projects/manjaro-arm/st....06.img.xz, flash it to a MicroSD card, put it into your Pinebook Pro, and follow the on-screen instructions, which will guide you through installing Manjaro to the EMMC. It's really easy, and I have actually done it multiple times. Hope this helps!

[pljanson]

Hi all,

Is there a clear instruction how to upgrade an 1st batch Pinebook Pro with original (Debian-Mate) OS on MMC to the new factory Manjaro or 20.06?
I've already tried manjaro 20.02 and 20.06 on SD and there are fine, so I like to update it to MMC to free up the SD slot.

Another option would be to install it on the SSD and boot from MMC to SSD, but I haven't found a real clear up to date instruction yet.
Or can we have a multiboot bootloader on MMC?

Regards Paul

That's easy-just download the Manjaro MicroSD to EMMC installer from here: https://osdn.net/projects/manjaro-arm/st....06.img.xz, flash it to a MicroSD card, put it into your Pinebook Pro, and follow the on-screen instructions, which will guide you through installing Manjaro to the EMMC. It's really easy, and I have actually done it multiple times. Hope this helps!

Hi I tried that one too, I installed it on SD and it only "installs" on SD, not on MMC. And it has the same filename and size as the SD installer. I however seen that previous versions has a special eMMC file (like  Manjaro-ARM-kde-plasma-pbpro-20.04-emmc-installer-20.04.img.xz) which isn't there (yet?) for the 20.06 files.

[jiyong]

You can also install 20.04 and do the upgrade with the package manager.
There is no need to keep installing every new version.

[pljanson]

You can also install 20.04 and do the upgrade with the package manager.
There is no need to keep installing every new version.

I tried that yesterday and (after some hassle) succeeded

But it took some effort:
I had to install the 20.04 emmc version to SD (although 20.04.19 and 20.06 exist for SD only).
https://osdn.net/projects/manjaro-arm/st....04.img.xz

Then it hangs and you need to press ESC to enter the menu (found somewhere in the of forums).
Like at https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=9929

The it just installs and works, although outdated.

So I tried to update with the packagemanager but that hangs on a bug in the 20.04 archive,
but that is also a known issue and I found a pacman command to update with overwrite.

Code:

pacman -Syyu --overwrite /usr/lib*/p11-kit-trust.so

See also https://www.unusually.pink/blog/pinebook...jaro-linux

Now finally I got an up to date manjaro (I think).

Now Release info:
cat /etc/lsb-release


Regards Paul