11-28-2020, 05:46 PM
(09-28-2020, 05:00 PM)Paulie420 Wrote: Hello team Pine64:
I hope that this small write-up has relevance and information that will help newcomers to the land of PBP who want to experiment with other operating softwares on the platform. I've been reading many horror stories of Pinebook Pro's that were damaged, or that the owner THINKS are damaged because they won't boot properly... after a user found themselves with an inoperable OS on their internal eMMC storage.
It seems that once a rookie user has an issue with their eMMC the first thing they do is open the laptop and flip the reset button next to the eMMC storage. This isn't always necessary. I wanted to go over how I reinstalled the original [or updated, if you have an older version of the PBP] Manjaro OS back onto the eMMC without opening the system. From what I can gather, you can certainly open the system and access the internals to get things done - and in some cases this needs to happen... but I'd be willing to bet that in most rookie scenerios, this isn't the case.
Anyway, I hope this long ass write-up helps someone so that they don't get down the rabbit hole. We got this...
Paulie, mucho props for the great help to us PB noobies. I got my brand new PB Pro a couple of days ago and Manjaro installed great... at least I thought it did. When I type in my password I get weird script characters ( almost looks to be Hindi or Thai). Obviously I can't get the password in correctly and I suspect there is an issue with the locale or language with my US Keyboard. I've tried to boot from a flashed SD Card with Manjaro on it but the Pinebook always ignores the SD and boots to the flawed install. I have seen where some are saying you have to open the laptop up and reset a switch to have it boot from a USB or SD. Is that true or is there certain keys to hold down during the boot to get it to the UEFI to enable SD or USB boot sequence? Or, do I need to go into the laptop and flip the reset switch?
Thanks
Randy