TRS-80

I can only imagine how happy @rpardini will be not needing to re-base any more. Jokes aside, kudos to you, you must be thrilled all your hard work will be seeing the light of day, finally. Thanks for sticking with it all that time.

Thanks for the feedback. Just to confirm, you have one of the more recent batch?

This is a (somewhat) long standing and well known issue, check PineBook Pro subforum here, there are a number of threads about various booting issues (including eMMC specifically). I think the problem (with the latest batch of PBP which were shipped, anyway) is that those came with Manjaro on the eMMC and no universal bootloader (tow boot) flashed on the SPI chip. Well thinking about that now, I guess burning to eMMC should still work, but it doesn't for some reason. Have you tried using armbian-config (and/or (the unfortunately named) nand-sata-install which can also be reached from there) to try and write the image to the eMMC? If you already overwrote the eMMC previously I guess there is nothing left to lose. I have this hardware but I just acquired an old headphone cable which I still need to fashion into a serial cable before I can proceed further. And I have yet to collect enough 'tuits' of the round variety.

This thread sounds oddly familiar (but I'm not going to bother searching). Anyway, I encourage you to consider configuration management as a separate concept to 'imaging the entire OS as a backup' as there are a couple problems with the latter approach: It wastes a lot of space. Upgrading in-place between major OS versions is not (and has never been) supported in Armbian, so sooner or later you will probably have to re-install everything anyway. In the configuration management space there are things like Ansible (and many, many others) in fact just searching up that term should give you plenty of ideas.

I think you should read his reply(ies) again (and some others in this thread), perhaps more carefully this time, as I came away with a different interpretation.

Yes, we (ab?)use the 'spoiler' functionality for that. I edited your post already.

I am surely no expert, but starting to wonder if something Manjaro put in their bootloader is not compatible with Armbian. This is not directly related to what NicoD was saying above, but I did want to report my experience. I have tried burning both the following images to SD card, in both cases I just get a blinking green power light: Armbian_22.08.1_Pinebook-pro_bullseye_current_5.15.63.img Armbian_22.11.1_Pinebook-pro_jammy_edge_6.0.10_xfce_desktop.img As a reminder, I have one of the newer (2022-06) production run of PineBook Pro, which comes with Manjaro pre-installed on the eMMC from PINE64. I have been unable to get Armbian working on it in any way, shape, or form ever since I bought it. So I don't use it at all (as I can't stand Manjaro nor KDE, personally). Anyway, I took a look at the eMMC (had to boot into Manjaro to do so) and it seems there are 2 partitions, one for /boot and one for /. Oh yes and BTW there is a switch by the eMMC which is supposed to bypass it (otherwise on RK3399 the boot order is SPI, eMMC, SD card), when I do that I get a steady orange light. But still no boot.[0] Even though I never use the pre-installed Manjaro image, I am still too afraid to flash anything directly to the eMMC (especially after reading many reports it doesn't work). I am going to order the special 'headphone to serial' cable that is required for the PineBook Pro, in hopes that I might be able to contribute further useful information. [0] OK, truth be told, I only tried this with the 22.08.1 image, as I didn't want to take out all those damn screws again just to get to that switch. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯