Tow Boot install help

[Paulie420]

I've flashed Tow-Boot after disabling the eMMC and erasing the SPI. The bootloader can interfere with the installation, so it's better to boot to SD with no IBL installed. You can also try flashing from the userspace as described here, but I would ask on Tow-Boot Matrix channel before proceeding.

Thanks - since posting this msg at the beginning, I've been by the Matrix project issues page and learned more. It seems like that June 2022 U-Boot update that I pushed to has something to do w/ the issue. I didn't think of Matrix; that might be a great place for info/help. Thanks.

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Thanks to all those who helped think thru this. Heres the bottom line;

If you've updated yer U-Boot to the June 2022 version as suggested here: https://www.jwillikers.com/update-u-boot...nebook-pro , Tow Boot's spi-installer.img written to an SD Card will fail to install.

The work around here: https://github.com/Tow-Boot/Tow-Boot/iss...-946644092 worked for me; I was able to write Tow-boot.spi.bin directly to /dev/mtd0 using;
dd if=Tow-boot.spi.bin of=/dev/mtd0

Tow Boot is installed and works fine using eMMC Manjaro and several SD/USB OSes. This worked for me on Pinebook Pro.