Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (27/2023): Boot loader news and Phosh 0.29.0
https://linmob.net/weekly-update-27-2023/

#LinuxMobile #PinePhone #GloDroid #Gentoo #Sailfish #towboot

well i am stuck with my #pinephone running #postmarketos with #towboot after bricking my android phone trying to upgrade the custom rom from android 10 to 12.
#phosh has come as long way since i used it last.

On the plus side, #TowBoot is damn amazing. #Postmarketos mistakenly created an ext4 root partition on my PinePhone and I could fix it by booting into USB block storage mode and running btrfs convert on it like I would with a pendrive. Rebooted the phone and it worked on first try.
So, shoutout to the TowBoot devs. (And also pmOS, despite that bug, it's heccin great.)

On the plus side, #TowBoot is damn amazing. #Postmarketos mistakenly created an ext4 root partition on my PinePhone and I could fix it by booting into USB block storage mode and running btrfs convert on it like I would with a pendrive. Rebooted the phone and it worked on first try.
So, shoutout to the TowBoot devs. (And also pmOS, despite that bug, it's damn amazing.)

Hmm, it installed* and is running, and GNOME 43 seems rather snappy on it but no wifi :(

* with Tow-Boot. During installation it says something like “your system won’t be able to boot… EFI… blah, blah.” Just ignore that and keep installing.

#pinebookPro #fedora #fedoraSilverblue #towBoot

Attempting to install Fedora Silverblue on my Pinebook Pro…

🤞🤓

#pinebookPro #fedora #fedoraSilverblue #towBoot

Trying to install #towboot gives me this error!

@awai

#Mobian weekly 2023-01-08 is fixed, indeed! I could easily install it via #towboot to #eMMC. Goodbye, #postmarketOS!

#Debian #LinuxOnMobile

Tried a fresh install of #Mobian on my #Pinephone with #TowBoot on the #eMMC. Copied the weekly image 2023-01-01, but screen remains black on boot. Any idea?

#help #question #support

#NetBSD installed brilliantly on-top of #TowBoot. That's awesome. I should write a blog post about this...

I'm a bit late to this, but Tow Boot is pretty awesome! #towboot #arm

This post from @martijnbraam is very interesting on creating a standard for booting #ARM #Linux. #PinePhone #Librem5 #UBoot #TowBoot

https://tuxphones.com/booting-arm-linux-the-standard-way/

YES!!!! I'm thrilled (ok, easily so...) to find that there's already an issue and possibly work to fix the #PinePhonePro boot-loop problem in #TowBoot, by making it wait for a minimum battery level before booting.

Currently if the battery runs flat, there often isn't enough power to boot the OS, so it constantly shuts down and restarts because the USB cord is plugged in, leading to an infinite boot loop.

I theorized a fix, but others were already ahead of me:

https://github.com/Tow-Boot/Tow-Boot/issues/140

@migratory@banana.dog @jawsh

OMG @yoshi I just tried this and this is a game changer! I can actually charge my battery without another #pinephone! It's simple, too. Remove USB cable, battery and SDcard. Plug battery in again. Hold RE while reinserting cable.

I do wish though, that #TowBoot, would just wait until the battery was charged enough to safely boot the OS before attempting to do so. Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but it seems that this would fix this whole mess in a user-transparent way.

Finally managed to install #towboot on my #pinebookpro
Turns out I had to delete my previous #uboot install from spi before trying to install tow-boot from an SD card: https://github.com/Tow-Boot/Tow-Boot/issues/131

nice writeup about #towboot https://tuxphones.com/booting-arm-linux-the-standard-way/ thanks
@martijnbraam

@martijnbraam @debacle @mobian

Debian does, in fact, ship the boot firmware I'm using on my #pinebookpro that I'm using right this very second!

I get as much as anyone how shipping boot firmware on SD and eMMC offsets or partitions or whatever is awkward and #towboot attempts to solve that problem.

But I also don't see a need, for boot firmware that is actually #foss to not also be able to get it from your distribution vendor.

A nice post by @martijnbraam explaining the motivation and workings behind #towboot https://tuxphones.com/booting-arm-linux-the-standard-way/

wow, just installed #towboot on my #pinephone. attitude like a bios and also able to turn a supported device directly into a big usb-stick https://tow-boot.org/ thanks samuel. greets to the birdsite ;)

Le passage de u-boot à two-boot sur mon #pinephone sous #mobian s’est déroulé sans aucun soucis:

1. Télécharger la dernière release pour pinephoneA64
2. Extraire l’archive
3. Coller l’archive sur une carte SD
4. Éteindre l’ordiphone
5. Insérer la carte SD
6. Démarrer
7. Installer sur eMMC boot
8. Éteindre et retirer la carte SD

https://tow-boot.org/devices/pine64-pinephoneA64.html

https://github.com/Tow-Boot/Tow-Boot/releases

#ordipoche #ordiphone #uBoot #towBoot