I’ve done an install last week to an uSD card and it worked. I went with “traditional” ext4. Did you get to the point of choosing the filesystem type? I wonder what seems to be the matter with yours.
I never tried the UART, I should buy the cable, but it’s still not available in their recently opened Europe virtual store.
Last time I used the pbp with an external display was indeed with the lts kernel… a long time ago. I just got used to using it in a different way (Window Manager all the way
It appears that all you have to do is update u-boot to the latest version. Apparently old versions don’t have it enabled by default, that’s what it sais in the wiki at least
(This actually makes a lot of sense as you appear to be using the rootfs from that one guy on github, which has not been updated in ~2 years iirc)
Also I doubt I can get that working on my own. I don’t even know how it works. Maybe somebody that actually knows what they are knowing could try it again. I only know that mine does not work
We’ve no idea whats going on if there are no logs.
Maybe try flashing and booting again and now give us more details on the boot process (maybe with pictures/screenshots). And if possible logs from the storage card (accessed through another computer).
I know that you don’t know what’s going on when there are no logs, but the test-image installer just produces an installation that boots, but does not go further from there. I can’t provide logs from nothing happening. All I know is that the caps and numlock butttons work, with nothing on screen. No cursor blinking no nothing. Stone dead after tow-boot loaded the boot image.
Do you have any other storage device like eMMc inside the pinebook??
Make sure you are booting from the storage device you flashed the installer into and using the version of towboot.
What brand of SD card are you using??
For me only Sandisk works. If I’m using other brands, I have to take out the SD card and pop it back in after the initramfs loads.
Pinebook has a big issue with SD card compatibility. I talked with pine64 moderators regarding this
Best way to install is on the eMMc card that exists in the pinebook.
I have an eMMc adapter that I used to flash our installer on that. Then put it back it and closed the pinebook and booted from it. It is running well since August
just idea … you can boot off usb drive . then install system to sd card or eMMc…
Also you try (staged boot using eMMC module on NvMe) or
(Direct boot on NvMe … which buggy as hell ) no worth trouble imo.
your system your rule … at end of day
EDit … i 100% agree with Sradjoker Scandisk work best…
in my xp Scandisk extreme pro give best result ( never have one fail in 2+ year ) also i no use less 64 Gb, Everything i throw at my 2020 PBP boot… Only problem i had is fry 128Gb eMMc that my fault prob. 5555555
I just tried running the installer on my PBP, and it only accepts inputs like emmc*, but not nvme* which is my drive. It just returns to the drive selection screen. I added that into the script which now executes.
The script also does not install wget and parted, even though it depends on them.
Edit: The partition naming scheme also seems to differ from the emmc. It uses something1 and something2, but the nvme uses somethingp1 and somethingp2 - Using the existing if statement made it work
Even pine64 moderators don’t know how to deal with it. It seems that the issue is the noise in the wires between the rockchip SOC and the SD card slot.
There is a patch in the kernel we ship to deal with it but it doesn’t work as inteded
I’m not sure about that since we’re using similar packages.
But I do update the kernel at a slower place and use a different bootloader (towboot vs uboot) and do some things slightly differently (based on my limited experience).
I’m always open to suggestions for improving the performance .
that my fault prob. 5555555 
