05-08-2016, 11:44 PM
After much frustration, I've finally achieved some success this evening. Some.
I was hooking my Pine to a monitor using an HDMI adapter. This seems like a HUGE no-no. My card works and I've flashed several OSes with success. Mine still dies when I plug in the network.
In the end, I just sort of think it wasn't super smart to have NO way to get clues as to how your Pine is doing along the process.
Accessing the SD card? Who knows!
Booting? Hard to say!
It sort of reminds me of early PC days when you listened for beep POST codes to let you know what was going on...and that's sort of my point. Back then they at least had that those things to help you figure out what was going on. I appreciate the idea of making a $15 main board, but I definitely would have paid another buck or two to not have this much hassle just trying to get a first boot. It certainly doesn't make me trust it.
I was hooking my Pine to a monitor using an HDMI adapter. This seems like a HUGE no-no. My card works and I've flashed several OSes with success. Mine still dies when I plug in the network.
In the end, I just sort of think it wasn't super smart to have NO way to get clues as to how your Pine is doing along the process.
Accessing the SD card? Who knows!
Booting? Hard to say!
It sort of reminds me of early PC days when you listened for beep POST codes to let you know what was going on...and that's sort of my point. Back then they at least had that those things to help you figure out what was going on. I appreciate the idea of making a $15 main board, but I definitely would have paid another buck or two to not have this much hassle just trying to get a first boot. It certainly doesn't make me trust it.
