Can't Install Manjaro - Partition Error

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Hi I’m super new to Manjaro and recently new to Linux in general. I’ve tried to install Manjaro on my Asus laptop but I get this error creating partition:

Create a new partition (50.07 GiB, ext4) on ‘/dev/mmcblk0’

Job: Create new partition on device ‘/dev/mmcblk0’

Command: sfdisk --force --append /dev/mmcblk0

Command: sfdisk --list --output Device,UUID /dev/mmcblk0

Job: Set the label on partition ‘/dev/mmcblk0p2’ to “root”

Command: sfdisk --part-label /dev/mmcblk0 2 root

Job: Create file system ‘ext4’ on partition ‘/dev/mmcblk0p2’

Command: mkfs.ext4 -qF /dev/mmcblk0p2

Does anyone know what this means / can I use my laptop for linux / manjaro at all? Is there a way to fix this? Thank you so much for any help you can give me as I was excited to use Manjaro!

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Hello @superficialfuture and welcome :wink:

By all good mean, there is no error. What makes you think that there is an error? The last command just creates a file system on your mmc.

Only thought here is that the mmc is broken and needs to be replaced.

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there was here recently another user with the same issue as you, with asus and mmc disk, and with a solution:

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Hey @brahma “way 1” worked modifying the sdhci in terminal and I was able to install Manjaro directly on the mmc disk! Thank you a bunch for your help!

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Retract that last statement, haha. After running it off of the MMC drive it had a huge error mmc0: running CQE recovery and the wifi networking no longer worked. After restarting the computer, the wifi networking worked again and I haven’t gotten an error message back.

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you need to add that quirk option to your kernel boot also, to make it permanent:
for that sdhci option, open this file:
sudo nano /etc/default/grub
and in this line: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT inside the quotes add this parameter:
sdhci.debug_quirks=0x20000
dont remove anything from there, just add it to existing parameters, save the file with: ctrl+x, update grub:
sudo update-grub