01-20-2022, 04:19 PM
Thanks a lot for the answers and the wecome!
Putting the current Mobian version on the SD card with balenaEtcher actually worked, so the phone being the 3 GB convergence edition was actually a red herring - sorry for the false alarm!
I wonder though if I have accidentially omitted a step after these two earlier commands
sudo bmaptool copy ~/tmp_ubuntu/ubuntu-touch-pinephone.img /dev/sdb1
xz --decompress --stdout ~/tmp_postos/20220119-0539-postmarketOS-v21.12-sxmo-de-sway-1.7.0-pine64-pinephone-installer.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdb1 bs=4M status=progress
or if there is another reason that only etcher worked (the SD card is a newly purchased Samsung evo).
I do had a major other issue though, that has been described earlier here:
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?...461&page=2
A couple of minutes after a debian splatscreen stating that it is "resizing file system during initial boot" appeared, the phone would only show a blackscreen (with background lighting).
I did follow the advice in the thread, i.e. already resizing partition 2 on the card before putting it into the phone (with growpart & resize.f2fs commands). Notably at one point during the process it said "Not enough space to migrate blocksTry to do defragement: Skip" without any further output for about 40 min (the SD card is 256 GB and my adapter is only USB 2.0, I would assume that is the reason it took so long), after which I got a success prompt.
A small remark: To my understanding, an unmounted device can be safely pulled out of the computer - so it might be just superstition but after all the hassle I did turn it off before doing so.
It finally worked, though I am still confused as to why the phone did not boot from SD card after it was treated with bmaptool/dd in the first place and furthermore why the manual resizing putting in the card was neccessary (faulty card?).
Putting the current Mobian version on the SD card with balenaEtcher actually worked, so the phone being the 3 GB convergence edition was actually a red herring - sorry for the false alarm!
I wonder though if I have accidentially omitted a step after these two earlier commands
sudo bmaptool copy ~/tmp_ubuntu/ubuntu-touch-pinephone.img /dev/sdb1
xz --decompress --stdout ~/tmp_postos/20220119-0539-postmarketOS-v21.12-sxmo-de-sway-1.7.0-pine64-pinephone-installer.img.xz | sudo dd of=/dev/sdb1 bs=4M status=progress
or if there is another reason that only etcher worked (the SD card is a newly purchased Samsung evo).
I do had a major other issue though, that has been described earlier here:
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?...461&page=2
A couple of minutes after a debian splatscreen stating that it is "resizing file system during initial boot" appeared, the phone would only show a blackscreen (with background lighting).
I did follow the advice in the thread, i.e. already resizing partition 2 on the card before putting it into the phone (with growpart & resize.f2fs commands). Notably at one point during the process it said "Not enough space to migrate blocksTry to do defragement: Skip" without any further output for about 40 min (the SD card is 256 GB and my adapter is only USB 2.0, I would assume that is the reason it took so long), after which I got a success prompt.
A small remark: To my understanding, an unmounted device can be safely pulled out of the computer - so it might be just superstition but after all the hassle I did turn it off before doing so.
It finally worked, though I am still confused as to why the phone did not boot from SD card after it was treated with bmaptool/dd in the first place and furthermore why the manual resizing putting in the card was neccessary (faulty card?).
