07-13-2023, 05:03 AM
Quote:Finished the screen saver test, did some test searching with the morph browser, did NOT click "USE" under storage, opened the device menu and hit "Reboot" waiting a full minute before clicking "Confirm" and.... same problem with it wiping the SD card defaulting to the outdated Manjaro OS that came with the phone.
Given this description, I sense that you may hit a different problem, which is not related to any data corruption of the SD-card: I noticed that the U-Boot boot loader sporadically fails to detect the SD-card. In this case, U-Boot falls back to booting from eMMC. When seeing the eMMC-installed Linux booting up, I usually kill it with fire (holding the power button for 5 seconds). Once the device is powered off, cold-booting the system via another press of the power button brings up Sculpt OS - at least whenever I had observed this problem. I'm seeing this every now and then, once in about 10 boot cycles. It'd be nice of you to try cold-booting Sculpt w/o touching the SD-card the next time you see the presumed corruption. If U-Boot is indeed the problem in your case, we can at least rule out an file-system issue at the Sculpt-OS level.
Down the road, we should definitely provide a way to install Sculpt on the internal eMMC. It will boost the boot time and file-system access quite a bit. But that's for later.
BTW, do you happen to have a USB-serial cable for your PinePhone (via the audio jack) to glimpse at log messages?
