Kali Linux for Pinebook Pro

[granstr0m]

I did a test of Kali from an SD and it worked great. So I flashed it to the  eMMC, rebooted and worked well.

But then I ran sudo apt upgrade and now it doesn't move past a black screen after reboot. Both when booting from the eMMC and now I can't even install Kali from the sd card. The red power light comes on but it doesn't turn green and just hangs there.

Is there something from the upgrade process that may be preventing my PBP from booting to the SD?

I had that same issue before. This is a known issue. I flashed manjaro to emmc with adapter. It is probably possible to flash without adapter using emmc switch (pbp wiki or search forum).

I have the exact same issue. Booted Kali 2020.2 of an SD-card. Used dd to write the image to the eMMC. Rebooted inte Kali from the eMMC and it worked just perfect. I was actually doing some rooms over at TryHackMe just to try it out and it worked so good. 

That was yesterday, today I rebooted again because of an issue in Kali and now it won't boot again. The orange power led lints up but screen stays blank san no green light. Tried to insert the sd-card again but same thing.

What do you mean that this is a known issue?? You are not supposed to be able to install anything on the eMMC??? How could it boot the first time??? Im really sad cause everything looked so damn promising up to this point....

And what do I do now? Is that adapter the only way?