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Aral Balkan

The PineBook Pro is rather beautiful on the inside.

(Although I’d rather I was able to make it boot from an sd card without having to open it and unplug wires.) 👀

Photo of inside of a PineBook Pro. A large battery takes up most of the space with a small motherboard on the top-right and what looks like an I/O board with USB, line, and SD card in on the top-left. Also visible are speaker grills and a bypass cable with a note about its use.
#Pine64#PineBookPro
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Aral Balkan

Snapped off the eMMC drive and it’s booting into Tow-Boot from the SD card.

Tow Boot screen with its logo and a menu with Flash firmware to SPI, Completely erase SPi and Reboot options.
Photo of tow-boot output after successfully flashing the SPI.
Photo of 64GB eMMC drive. A tiny chip.
#PineBookPro
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Aral Balkan

While I’m at it, might as well install the NVMe interface adapter.

Photo of said device: a long, thin board with a place to plug in an NVMe drive.
#PineBookPro
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Aral Balkan

Yay! Fedora Silverblue is being installed on my PinebookPro as we speak :)

Photo of Fedora Silverblue installing running on a PinebookPro.
#FedoraSilverblue#PineBookPro
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Aral Balkan

Might have spoken too soon. Either it’s taking forever (seems stuck on “writing objects”) or it’s stuck.

#FedoraSilverblue#PineBookPro
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Aral Balkan

Aha, and now an error message:

“The following error occured while installing the boot loader. The system will not be bootable…:

Failed to set new efi boot target. This is most likely a kernel or a firmware bug.”

Fun times.

Someone get the folks at Fedora a PinebookPro.

CC @Pine64

#FedoraSilverblue#Pine64#PineBookPro
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Aral Balkan

Ah, interesting, so maybe the error message is wrong?

discussion.fedoraproject.org/t

(Don’t you just love those?)

Fedora DiscussionHas anyone gotten Fedora Silverblue working on the Pinebook Pro?I got it to work! You need to first install Tow-Boot to the Pinebook spi flash (Getting Started | Tow-Boot). I had some issues with this process and found solutions here (doc: Document neutering other platform firmware installs · Issue #47 · Tow-Boot/Tow-Boot · GitHub) and here (No option to flash firmware to SPI on Pinebook Pro · Issue #55 · Tow-Boot/Tow-Boot · GitHub). Once I had Tow-Boot installed I was able to boot from an sd card with the Silverblue installer image and install to the emmc. ...
#Fedora#FedoraSilverblue#PineBookPro
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Aral Balkan

Hmm, seems it’s not seeing the WiFi adapter (yes, I checked the kill “switch” – meta + F11 – it’s correct, and yes I rebooted just to make sure) :)

Gonna try postmarketOS next, me thinks :)

#PineBookPro#fedoraSilverblue
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Aral Balkan

Ah, it started so well, and then… 👀

PostmarketOS welcome screen on Pinebook Pro
A Pinebook Pro laptop with a huge on-screen keyboard filling the entire screen.
#postMarketOS#pineBookPro
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Aral Balkan

It’s installed and snappy (I installed the GNOME version and it’s faster than it was under Fedora Silverblue). And WiFi works. But… no GNOME Software? No web browser? 👀

#postMarketOS#pineBookPro
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Aral Balkan

So if anyone else is running into this, you can install the basic GNOME apps by running:

sudo setup-desktop gnome

Not sure why postmarketOS GNOME for Pinebook Pro doesn’t come with this as default.

#postMarketOS#pineBookPro#GNOME
Aral Balkan

The default resolution is too dense on the Pinebook Pro, so I had to:

gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['scale-monitor-framebuffer']"

And then set it to 150% in the display settings.

If you do that and use Firefox, it will appear blurry so edit the firefox.desktop file (/usr/share/applications/org.mozilla.firefox.desktop) and change the exec line to:

Exec=env MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 firefox %u

#postmarketOS#alpine#fractionalScaling
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Desikner

@aral Until there is a Firefox update and you'll have to do it again.

Copy org.mozilla.firefox.desktop to ~/.local/share/applications/ and edit the file in that location.

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qwazix

@aral changing the desktop file will probably revert on update, you'd better set the environment variable in .profile or something.

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Jiří Eischmann :fedora:

@aral I guess you're not using the Fedora Firefox, right? Because the Fedora one should run on Wayland by default.

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Aral Balkan

@sesivany Yeah, Fedora Firefox is fine (apart from not being able to play videos when first run). I installed postmarketOS on the Pinebook Pro (Silverblue wasn’t a great experience on it.) Love it on my beefy Rizen desktop machine though.

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