Hello, as the title said, I got my hands on a Mission Mini ARM based pc but unfortunately it is stuck in Maintenence/Emergency mode. Can’t flash a new image because I can’t find one and not enough resources to fix the issue.
One more thing, is it possible to install another light weight headless version of EOS or any other compatible distro?
Thanks for any help.
To say the least, this is really disappointing! If I sneeze on another community linux forum I’d at least get a bless you!
You can drop future support for ARM development but I don’t understand why you need to lock all old devices down and turn them into landfill while allot of use can still be made out of them!
How can I request a special link for the ARM image files to reformat my system and get it running again please?
Took some time to find related information. I found the image link which might help Build eosnonfree-armhf-ec100-en-eos3.8 (Release 201005-165429) .
Please bare in mind: Mission Mini has been phased out and it only supports older Endless OS version.
Amazing, thank you so much!
I think i over estimated my capabilities, would you please point me to a resource on how to reinstall the system? Because it is obviously not as straight forward as I thought.
Appreciate the help.
I’d say sorry about that. We even do not have the devices on hands now.
Not even the documentation? I don’t need hand holding I’ll manage on my own. Thank you.
From our old internal docs:
The board will attempt to boot first from eMMC, and then fall back on SD. If as a developer, you wish to make the system boot from an SD card, you must ensure that you erase the bootloader from eMMC, otherwise you will experience unpredictable behaviour.
- Identify the eMMC device, it will either be /dev/mmcblk0 or /dev/mmcblk1, you can identify the eMMC device because it will also have subnodes mmcblkXboot0, mmcblkXboot1.
- Erase the start of the identified device with: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mmcblkX count=100
Hopefully you can do the above from the maintenance mode prompt you have encountered.
Then you can flash the image to a SD card, and it will boot from that.
Once booted from SD card, you can flash the image back to eMMC.
From that point onwards the system will boot from eMMC again.
Hope that helps!
You are a Rockstar! Thank you so much. I’m sure this will benefit others too.