08-31-2022, 10:06 AM
(08-20-2022, 02:44 PM)elitegamercody Wrote: Hi,
I have flashed multiple OS images available from the wiki (besides Manjaro) to the eMMC but consistently get stuck at the Manjaro logo/boot screen without getting to set up the prebuilt armbian, or DietPi, or Kali, but have been hesitant to overwrite the boot partition on the eMMC itself due to the news regarding the bootloader.
Is it possible to install anything but Manjaro on the new runs of the PBP now?
(08-22-2022, 02:16 AM)KC9UDX Wrote: It should be. But most of the official images that worked are just not available anymore. Unless you can find a copy of one of those, you may have to cook your own.Same here! I had absolutely no difficulty with booting from SD on my first early production (2021) Pro, but this one is acting about a "proprietary" as a Mac! Using Baleenttcher to flash Armbian_22.05.1_Pinebook-pro_jammy_edge_5.18.0_xfce_desktop.img.xz, I get a perfect, uncompressed copy on the SD card. But when I try to boot from the card, all I get is a totally blank screen and a slowly blinking green power light. I can even remove the card, hot, and the Pinebook pro will immediately boot Manjaro, so t's fairly obvious that their Uboot is proprietary as hell.
What is this news regarding the bootloader?
While I have long Linux experience (going back to Yggdrasil), I make no claims to being a developer or much more than a F77 and C patch programmer. But while I find Manjaro reliable enough, I have never been able to stand KDE, ever since its beginning, considering it bloatware. All that I, and apparently other users as well, am asking for is a simple uboot or towboot file with simple instructions about how to flash it. This really is the Achilles heel of the Pinebook Pro and, for that mater, the entire Pine64 program, and it's a shame.
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