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Hello, I flashed the Armbian_22.11.1_Pinebook-pro_jammy_edge_6.0.10_gnome_desktop.img file on the 64GB eMMC card of my Pinebook Pro (PBP) laptop but although the eMMC recognizes the image (the ARM logo appears on the screen for a few seconds), booting stalls at (initramfs). I proceeded as follows: 1) First copied the image file from my PC on a 64GB SD card which I inserted into PBP, booted it from the SD card and installed Armbian-Ubuntu without any problem. 2) Downloaded the Armbian*.xz file a second time - this time from the SD card installation -, uncompressed it and flashed it to the eMMC with a USB-to-eMMC adapter after having formatted and partitioned the eMMC. 3) Removed the SD card and rebooted. Installation of Armbian-Ubuntu began but stalled after a few seconds at the (initramfs) prompt. Couldn't type any command (such as exit) after it. PBP only boots from the SD card, but not from eMMC. Nor does it find the SSD card which I inserted with an eNVME adapter on the laptop. Any hint or advice helping me to solve this issue would be very much appreciated.

In fact all versions since kernel 5.10.?? are broken and stop at u-boot. Better the Uboot shall dive down and never ever come up to bother us. Finally I managed to install bullseye by using a buster image, deactivtion kernel upgrade and removed the armbian.list from /etc/apt/ Then I changed source list from buster to bullseye apt update apt upgrade -y apt full-upgrade -y thats it. And i is really a shame to fool the community by uploading untested software.

hello guys bluetooth stopped working uname -a Linux pinebook 5.15.76-rockchip64 #22.08.8 SMP PREEMPT Sun Oct 30 10:57:32 CET 2022 aarch64 GNU/Linux dmesg | grep Bluetooth [ 9.863147] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.22 [ 9.863249] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized [ 9.863261] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized [ 9.863266] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized [ 9.863276] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized [ 9.972130] Bluetooth: HCI UART driver ver 2.3 [ 9.972144] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol H4 registered [ 9.972147] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol BCSP registered [ 9.972218] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol LL registered [ 9.972222] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol ATH3K registered [ 9.972261] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol Three-wire (H5) registered [ 9.972460] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol Intel registered [ 9.972609] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol Broadcom registered [ 9.972646] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol QCA registered [ 9.972649] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol AG6XX registered [ 9.972688] Bluetooth: HCI UART protocol Marvell registered [ 12.322372] Bluetooth: hci0: command 0xfc18 tx timeout [ 20.450331] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: failed to write update baudrate (-110) [ 20.450363] Bluetooth: hci0: Failed to set baudrate [ 20.799400] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3 [ 20.799435] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast [ 20.799461] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized blueman-manager blueman-manager 14.32.28 ERROR Manager:147 on_dbus_name_appeared: Default adapter not found, blueman-manager 14.32.28 ERROR Manager:151 on_dbus_name_appeared: No adapter(s) found, exitin stopped working after last system update

I know for sure that booting from an sd card and then using dd to write the uncompressed image to the emmc device isn't what works. I'm talking about Armbian_22.02.1_Pinebook-pro_focal_current_5.15.25_xfce_desktop.img here. Because that essentially bricked my PBP. I have the little adapter to connect the emmc to a usd slot, and using balena etcher to write to that isn't it either. the uboot in that image prevents booting from sd automatically as well, and i didn't find any uboot documentation that made it clear how to manually boot from sd, though i did hook up a serial console. This is what it said. The LED never turned green, the display flashes once but displays no images or text.

Thank you all for this series of notes. I have been operating Armbian 22.08 successfully using the sd card on my PBP and like it BUT I would like to boot from emm. I have tried dozens of ways to install it to no avail. Seems to be associated with the rootdev=UUID=... If I use the UUID provided in the Armbian-install then I can boot from emm but it ends up mounting and running from the SD partition. Is there any code that can be inserted into the /boot/armbianEnv.txt file that would provide better diagnostics? To me it appears as if the emm partitions UUID is not available at boot time. Thanks, Carl

Hi, I put the image on an SD card, but the machine fails to boot. Looking at the serial console, it just sits in a loop with the CPU constantly resetting after an exception. Serial console log is attached. Regards, Dianne. bootloop.txt

Hello! I don't really have a question, but just wanted to report I tried out the generic UEFI arm64 image on a Pinebook Pro, and it installed emmc and booted just fine! This was possible because I had installed Tow-Boot to the SPI flash, which supports UEFI booting. I had tried using the Pinebook Pro build of armbian, which worked fine when booting off the sdcard, but installing it to the emmc wasn't working. I'm using Tow-Boot 2021.10 then arbmian image Armbian_22.08.7_Uefi-arm64_jammy_current_5.15.74 . There's a few rough edges in the grub menu, but it boots the OS off the emmc just fine. Should the be mentioned on the Pinebook Pro page? Personally, having Tow-Boot installed to SPI is all around a much more "normal" laptop experience, so it seems like a good idea in general.

I see this is the beginners section so mind as a beginner I had difficulty following the solution to the problem presented here Igor posted the "solution" which is I quote So I went to the first link he posted for the "instructions" and saw the first post stating a sort of diagnostic for the error, and a large amount of following comments from the community, one of these comments was from a user called "rmw" where he says,

Hi. I have a freshly installer Jammy (XFCe) version installed on a Pinebook Pro and after the install run one single update. sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade As part of that upgrade a message appeared to inform me that the existing firefox installion will be replaced by a snap version, apparently standard in Ubuntu now. The installation did not show any errors but if I want to start firefox in the snap version now I get this error: mmw@pinebook-pro:~$ firefox & [1] 3726 mmw@pinebook-pro:~$ /user.slice/user-1000.slice/session-c2.scope is not a snap cgroup As this is all still almost out of the box, is there a solution to get the snap work ? Btw, I tried if chromium works, but I get the same message.

Hi. I have installed the Armbian Jammy version for the Pinebook Pro and right after installation without any changes I get this error when I want to upgrade. Any idea how to fix this? mmw@pinebook-pro:~$ sudo apt-get update [sudo] password for mmw: Get:1 http://ports.ubuntu.com jammy InRelease [270 kB] Hit:2 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/oibaf/graphics-drivers/ubuntu hirsute InRelease Hit:3 http://ports.ubuntu.com jammy-security InRelease Hit:4 http://ports.ubuntu.com jammy-updates InRelease Hit:5 http://ports.ubuntu.com jammy-backports InRelease Hit:6 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/saiarcot895/chromium-dev/ubuntu hirsute InRelease Ign:8 https://apt.armbian.com jammy InRelease Err:9 https://apt.armbian.com jammy Release Redirection from https to 'http://armbian.12z.eu/apt/dists/jammy/Release' is forbidden [IP: 2605:7900:20::5 443] Get:10 http://ports.ubuntu.com jammy/main armhf Packages [1,701 kB] Get:7 https://paulcarroty.gitlab.io/vscodium-deb-rpm-repo/debs vscodium InRelease [3,828 B] Get:11 http://ports.ubuntu.com jammy/multiverse armhf Packages [199 kB] Get:12 http://ports.ubuntu.com jammy/universe armhf Packages [16.8 MB] Get:13 https://paulcarroty.gitlab.io/vscodium-deb-rpm-repo/debs vscodium/main arm64 Packages [598 B] Get:14 https://paulcarroty.gitlab.io/vscodium-deb-rpm-repo/debs vscodium/main armhf Packages [602 B] Get:15 http://ports.ubuntu.com jammy/restricted arm64 Packages [24.2 kB] Get:16 http://ports.ubuntu.com jammy/universe arm64 Packages [17.2 MB] Get:17 http://ports.ubuntu.com jammy/restricted armhf Packages [13.3 kB] Get:18 http://ports.ubuntu.com jammy/multiverse arm64 Packages [224 kB] Get:19 http://ports.ubuntu.com jammy/main arm64 Packages [1,758 kB] Reading package lists... Done E: The repository 'https://apt.armbian.com jammy Release' does not have a Release file. N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

Does anyone know the status of getting display to work over USB-C on Pinebook Pro? Thanks!

Is there any plan to port to the Pinebook Pro?

Hi, I am running Armbian on my Pinebook and want to install Kodi version 17. In official repository only version 15 is available. Is it possible to install version 17 and if yes, please tell me some instructions. Thank you in advance.