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thank you very much for your work. I bought the Pinenote a long time ago and have not yet installed anything custom on it. Therefore I still had it as shipped from the facory. When I followed your instructions in https://github.com/PNDeb/pinenote-debian-image/blob/main/partition_tables/Readme.md I encountered a problem: my PineNote did not seem to boot after I followed the install instructions (screen stayed blank when turning it on).
After some research and a few tries I got it to work. My problem was, that I still had the faulty factory uboot and all backups taken (of sectors >32MB) were empty. Therefore I copied empty data back to the partitions (after changing the layout) and the PineNote would not do anything. Thanks to https://github.com/DorianRudolph/pinenotes and his backup I got it working in the end.
Please include instructions on how to fix uboot BEFORE the backup is taken. I guess it is as simple as to write the fixed uboot once to the device and then maybe reboot once again?
After reading through the README again I can see that it includes some information about the uboot 32Mb bug, but they are missing in the section of the flashing commands. But I did not understand what this section meant, I thought that the faulty uboot would be unable to boot linux or something like this. It was unclear to me, that I could not take a backup with this faulty version of uboot. I think it would be highly beneficial, if the steps to fix uboot were also included at the beginning of the flashing commands.
I also had too look elsewhere (https://pine64.org/documentation/PineNote/Development/Flashing/) on how to get to the stage where rkdeveloptool could be used (rebooting with the magnet placed correctly). It would also be nice, it this were a bit clearer from the instructions (a simple link mightd suffice), to make it easier for other beginners trying to install it.
Thank you very much for your work.
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thank you very much for your work. I bought the Pinenote a long time ago and have not yet installed anything custom on it. Therefore I still had it as shipped from the facory. When I followed your instructions in https://github.com/PNDeb/pinenote-debian-image/blob/main/partition_tables/Readme.md I encountered a problem: my PineNote did not seem to boot after I followed the install instructions (screen stayed blank when turning it on).
After some research and a few tries I got it to work. My problem was, that I still had the faulty factory uboot and all backups taken (of sectors >32MB) were empty. Therefore I copied empty data back to the partitions (after changing the layout) and the PineNote would not do anything. Thanks to https://github.com/DorianRudolph/pinenotes and his backup I got it working in the end.
Please include instructions on how to fix uboot BEFORE the backup is taken. I guess it is as simple as to write the fixed uboot once to the device and then maybe reboot once again?
After reading through the README again I can see that it includes some information about the uboot 32Mb bug, but they are missing in the section of the flashing commands. But I did not understand what this section meant, I thought that the faulty uboot would be unable to boot linux or something like this. It was unclear to me, that I could not take a backup with this faulty version of uboot. I think it would be highly beneficial, if the steps to fix uboot were also included at the beginning of the flashing commands.
I also had too look elsewhere (https://pine64.org/documentation/PineNote/Development/Flashing/) on how to get to the stage where rkdeveloptool could be used (rebooting with the magnet placed correctly). It would also be nice, it this were a bit clearer from the instructions (a simple link mightd suffice), to make it easier for other beginners trying to install it.
Thank you very much for your work.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: