DietPi for Pinebook
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Just a quick update ... Still wondering whether something was confusing internal versus external storage, I overwrote the SD with archlinux and booted it without issue. From there, I proceeded to wipe the internal emmc storage and write the dietpi image to that. To my surprise, the pinebook booted right into dietpi that way.

I performed a small bit of configuration and allowed it to update itself and followed with a reboot. The boot failed with similar messages as with the sd boot failures. I powered down and rebooted again. And again. And again. After about 5 attempts, it booted. I immediately tried again, and boot failed.

I wonder what is different between dietpi and the other distributions which make it so unreliable on my pinebook - I have seen zero boot failures from either SD or emmc for 5-6 distributions I've played with. I also wonder what is different with my 1080p pinebook, as I don't see evidence of others having this issue.

I purchased the 64GB emmc along with the 1080p pinebook, and that is what is currently installed. So while I could have botched that connection somehow, doing so would have shown up with all the other distributions as well.

So ... any ideas?

I'm after the most nimble distribution, upon which I'll be running i3 or awesome or another small tiling window manager. I don't need much - the web browser used for research will be the biggest drain, tmux/ssh/nmap will be 90% of what this is used for. The dietpi distribution looks like it should be a good match, but only if I can get it to run ...


Messages In This Thread
DietPi for Pinebook - by Fourdee - 11-29-2018, 02:40 PM
RE: DietPi for Pinebook - by caps - 11-29-2018, 03:10 PM
RE: DietPi for Pinebook - by Luke - 11-29-2018, 04:09 PM
RE: DietPi for Pinebook - by rpm - 12-01-2018, 01:14 AM
RE: DietPi for Pinebook - by maldus - 12-02-2018, 03:58 AM
RE: DietPi for Pinebook - by pineadmin - 12-04-2018, 10:34 PM
RE: DietPi for Pinebook - by pineadmin - 12-06-2018, 10:47 PM
RE: DietPi for Pinebook - by dhylton - 12-07-2018, 04:16 PM
RE: DietPi for Pinebook - by dhylton - 12-09-2018, 10:03 AM
RE: DietPi for Pinebook - by WZ9V - 01-05-2019, 11:00 PM
RE: DietPi for Pinebook - by WZ9V - 01-09-2019, 08:38 AM

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