Pinebook Pro won't turn on

[leibide]

"You are connected to internet???"

wdt, your suspicion has proved correct - I forgot to even connect to the internet. Doh!

"I assume you have another computer?"

Yes, an X86 desktop, though I've mostly been trying from a second Pinebkpro that I got my father.


I've followed your instructions. Here's what that looks like in the terminal window:


rock@Debian-Desktop:~$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 931.5G 0 disk
`-sda1 8:1 0 931.5G 0 part /media/rock/Disque Dur
mmcblk1 179:0 0 58.2G 0 disk
`-mmcblk1p2 179:2 0 58G 0 part /media/rock/ROOT_MNJRO
mmcblk1boot0 179:32 0 4M 1 disk
mmcblk1boot1 179:64 0 4M 1 disk
mmcblk1rpmb 179:96 0 16M 0 disk
mmcblk0 179:128 0 59.5G 0 disk
|-mmcblk0p1 179:129 0 64M 0 part /boot
`-mmcblk0p2 179:130 0 59.4G 0 part /
rock@Debian-Desktop:~$ mount|grep mmc
/dev/mmcblk0p2 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
/dev/mmcblk0p1 on /boot type vfat (ro,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=936,iocharset=utf8,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/mmcblk1p2 on /media/rock/ROOT_MNJRO type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=ordered,uhelper=udisks2)
rock@Debian-Desktop:~$ cd Downloads
rock@Debian-Desktop:~/Downloads$ ls
mmcblk0 pinebookpro-debian-desktop-mrfixit-191123.img.xz
rock@Debian-Desktop:~/Downloads$ xzcat pinebookpro-debian-desktop-mrfixit-191123.img.xz|dd of=mmcblk0 bs=1M
0+634460 records in
0+634460 records out
5377097728 bytes (5.4 GB, 5.0 GiB) copied, 240.572 s, 22.4 MB/s
rock@Debian-Desktop:~/Downloads$ sync
rock@Debian-Desktop:~/Downloads$ uname -r
4.4.202
rock@Debian-Desktop:~/Downloads$


Then shutdown. Removed SD. Red LED light when I turned on, but nothing more. I should mention, Debian on this SD card did not shut down properly. It always gives a dark screen with a green LED. A white underscore flashes in the top left corner of screen for a few seconds also. With my new confidence in dd commands, I tried Bionic LXDE using the same instructions as before.
So from Downloads in Debian on SD card:
rock@Debian-Desktop:~/Downloads$ ls
bionic-lxde-pinebookpro-0.9.14-1159-armhf.img.xz
mmcblk0
pinebookpro-debian-desktop-mrfixit-191123.img.xz
rock@Debian-Desktop:~/Downloads$ ^C
rock@Debian-Desktop:~/Downloads$ xzcat bionic-lxde-pinebookpro-0.9.14-1159-armhf.img.xz|dd of=mmcblk0 bs=1M
0+450692 records in
0+450692 records out
3757047808 bytes (3.8 GB, 3.5 GiB) copied, 149.734 s, 25.1 MB/s
rock@Debian-Desktop:~/Downloads$ sync
rock@Debian-Desktop:~/Downloads$ cd
rock@Debian-Desktop:~$ uname-r
bash: uname-r: command not found
rock@Debian-Desktop:~$ uname
Linux


As with my attempt with Bionic LXDE on SD card, computer gives red then green light on turn on, then nothing more.

I'm making heavy work of this, but I feel I'm getting there. I'm happy to pull out the emmc and dd directly to that from another computer if necessary (I have an SD/emmc adapter for use on USB type A port).