01-09-2023, 05:57 AM
:dodgy: tophneal
the inability to boot from sd is def a bug in the uboot installed with the shipped Manjaro, but with about 5m time, you can get around it to boot an SD. The wiki has instructions concerning disabling the eMMC to boot to an SD again, and to bind it once booted to SD so you can install to it
I find it difficult to believe that Pine64 has not insisted that Manjaro repair the mess they made of the bootloader or, if they refused, that Pine64 didn't drop Manjaro totally. If Manjaro (and for that matter, Pine64) are that disinterested or self-serving, especially in view of the number of complaints, then neither is worthy of our business. Pity is that it's a damned fine box which has been hobbled unnecessarily by a bunch of apparent turkeys, and at the expense of people who purchased in good faith..
(11-17-2022, 12:52 PM)GreyHobbyist Wrote: OK, MY initial impression is that it's a Manjaro boat anchor. I don't want Manjaro. I want Ubuntu, more useful for all my projects than Manjaro. Couldn't figure out how to upgrade, or boot to SD card, or install another OS...NOTHING! BUT ALL MY DISPLAY PIXELS WORK if anyone at Pine64 is interested. Not interested in returning. Just interested in making it more useful. I got Windows laptops running Ubuntu. Why is this so difficult and complicated? I was truly shocked at what I received.
the inability to boot from sd is def a bug in the uboot installed with the shipped Manjaro, but with about 5m time, you can get around it to boot an SD. The wiki has instructions concerning disabling the eMMC to boot to an SD again, and to bind it once booted to SD so you can install to it
I find it difficult to believe that Pine64 has not insisted that Manjaro repair the mess they made of the bootloader or, if they refused, that Pine64 didn't drop Manjaro totally. If Manjaro (and for that matter, Pine64) are that disinterested or self-serving, especially in view of the number of complaints, then neither is worthy of our business. Pity is that it's a damned fine box which has been hobbled unnecessarily by a bunch of apparent turkeys, and at the expense of people who purchased in good faith..
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