Pinetab2 not booting.

[gregb49]

Upon arrival my pine tab 2 didn't boot.  So I flashed a SD card and tried booting via the UART adapter. I get the following message when using screen:

mmc1: error -110 whilst initializing mmc card

I've used probably 4 different SD cards. 

The screen comes on but nothing displays. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

I did get that error, or something similar, once, trying to boot from an SD Card, but I did persevere. I tried installing Mobian, in the hope that Mobian had included a WiFi driver, but after installing, and shutting down, I was in the same position as you. Blank screen and no matter what I tried, it would not boot.

I've had more success though, than you, as I wrote danctnix-factory-image-20230527.img.xz to a well used 32gb SD Card, and using the instructions at "using the debug UART adapter" was able to rewrite the "factory image" successfully (no WiFi of course). 

I do wonder if the mmc1 error is referring to your eMMC storage rather than the SD Card, as I found the UART adaptor quite tricky to use. You seem to have to switch at just the right moment.