Can't reinstall debian after breaking pre-installed OS
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I made a mistake and wrecked my chromium and firefox installs and need to revert to factory state OS.  I downloaded the image from the repo for the same debian that comes pre-installed, but after burning to micro-sd it just sits on a black blank screen.  I left it for over an hour just to see if that was just initializing or installing or something but after I rebooted it the old broken version is still there.  

I got the aryfan build of bionic to boot up but it is a live os that can't seem to connect to any wifi (says bad password, even though I did it over and over and it was not a bad password). But it shows the card is being read and can be boot from.

I used etcher to burn the image of the debian mrfixit build to a 32gb micro SD but like I said it is just a blank screen.  Right now my pinebook pro is pretty useless, but it is my own fault for tinkering so much with it.  Any ideas as to why the image (pinebookpro-debian-mrfixit) just sits on a blank screen?  I wonder how they put the OS on this in the first place.

Anyways, love the pinebook pro otherwise, and thanks.


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Can't reinstall debian after breaking pre-installed OS - by crownest - 11-22-2019, 08:13 PM

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