11-08-2019, 06:33 AM
(11-08-2019, 05:15 AM)perceg Wrote:(11-08-2019, 12:17 AM)xircledev Wrote: I was looking for instructions like this. Everything worked as planned until I tried to reboot. Now the machine is stuck in a loop trying to boot. It never makes it to the boot screen. I can't even run the desktop from the SD now. Any clue as to what I can do?
Thanks.
Same thing here. In order to boot from the SD I needed to switch off the eMMC using the onboard switch. In order to do that you need to open up the bottom cover, look for the white switch to the left of eMMC (numbered 24 on the Pinebook Pro Internal Layout photo at https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/Pinebo..._Main_Page) and push it sideways into the off position.
Now I can boot from the SD, but obviously still looking for the way to successfully flash default Debian system back to eMMC.
It's a known problem.
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=8162
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=8163
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=8031
You can edit the SD card so that it boots with Debian installed on the eMMC.
You could switch the eMMC off, boot SD, then switch the eMMC back on. However, opening up a computer that is powered up is generally a bad idea.
You could boot Ubuntu off SD, follow the instructions in the tutorial section to install it to eMMC, then boot Debian off SD, then install it to eMMC.
