03-13-2022, 01:59 PM
Well; something interesting.
So I found that, when I held the RE button until the device turned on, it booted from the microSD; however, the eMMC wasn't recognized. I'd read that could happen if the RE button was held for too long so I tried booting again but hold the RE button for less time and things booted, again…from the eMMC.
It won't boot, at all, without the RE button; but I can run Mobian from the eMMC if I hold the RE button the right amount of time. Running from a microSD was, honestly, just as smooth as running against the eMMC so my plan had been to reflash Manjaro Plasma to the eMMC so I could boot from the microSD like a normal phone (i.e. no RE button involved) but I think this disallows me from ever writing to the eMMC again, right? One can't (successfully) write to the disk one's running from, right?
So I found that, when I held the RE button until the device turned on, it booted from the microSD; however, the eMMC wasn't recognized. I'd read that could happen if the RE button was held for too long so I tried booting again but hold the RE button for less time and things booted, again…from the eMMC.
It won't boot, at all, without the RE button; but I can run Mobian from the eMMC if I hold the RE button the right amount of time. Running from a microSD was, honestly, just as smooth as running against the eMMC so my plan had been to reflash Manjaro Plasma to the eMMC so I could boot from the microSD like a normal phone (i.e. no RE button involved) but I think this disallows me from ever writing to the eMMC again, right? One can't (successfully) write to the disk one's running from, right?