I don’t know what I’m doing wrong or whether my Pinebook Pro has a fault but I seem to keep ending up in the same place, after doing a clean install of Manjaro ARM 20.08. The previous process was as follows:
- Insert a microSD card containing a Debian instance.
- Boot the Pinebook Pro using the microSD card.
- Zero out the eMMC using
dd
. - Flash Manjaro ARM to the eMMC via
dd
. - Power off the Pinebook Pro.
- Remove the microSD card.
- Boot into Manjaro ARM.
- Run
sudo pacman -Syyu
. - Resolve the
locale.gen
pacnew
issue. - Use
lsblk
to identify where Manjaro ARM is installed & updateuboot
by running the twodd
commands. In my case, I swapped theX
for a2
. - Reboot the Pinebook Pro to check that
uboot
is okay. - Install some software via
pacman
:-
hunnspell-en_GB
,yay
,base-devel
,r
,rkward
,gcc-fortran
,openblas
,syncthing
(not enabled viasystemctl
as it is currently is broken),telegram-desktop
,jdk-openjdk
,libnotify
,neofetch
,mesa-demos
,papirus-icon-theme
.
-
- Install some software from AUR via
yay
:-
simplenote-electron-bin
,vivaldi-arm64
,vivaldi-codecs-ffmpeg-extra-bin-arm
,zotero-arm-bin
.
-
- Add the Privacy Shark repo and use
pacman
to install some software from there:-
signal-desktop
,teams-for-linux
,jitsi-meet-desktop
.
-
- Change SDDM login screen theme to breeze, desktop icon theme to papirus-dark, and change the lock screen and desktop wallpapers.
- Use konqi as my user avatar, and add a user email in KDE’s system settings.
- Switch scrolling direction to natural for both X and Y axis on the trackpad, and activate X-axis two-finger scrolling, in system settings.
- Minor
r
,rkward
andkate
tweeks. - Power off Pinebook Pro at some point.
- Pinebook Pro no longer boots. Gets stuck with the red power LED glowing and a faint hissing sound. I’ve noticed that I’ve had a USB-C power cable in when this has happened this time, but can’t remember if that’s been the case every time.
My output of extlinux.conf
is:
LABEL Manjaro ARM
KERNEL /Image
FDT /dtbs/rockchip/rk3399-pinebook-pro.dtb
APPEND initrd=/initramfs-linux.img console=tty1 console=ttyS2,1500000 root=LABEL=ROOT_MNJRO rw rootwait bootsplash.bootfile=bootsplash-themes/manjaro/bootsplash
Please could someone help me? What am I doing wrong? I can still insert my Debian microSD install and boot from that.