Hi Don,

Firstly, sending multiple identical emails won't get you a faster or
better response. Also, sending messages every potential support forum
on the web will also not get you better or faster responses.

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Don Warner Saklad <[email protected]> wrote:
> What are the intricacies?, what's the finese for operating the Neal Peacock 
> PengPod1000 tablets' Buttons!?...
>
> What Button presses, what sequence of Button presses, what length of
> holding Button presses can be tried to get the Neal Peacock PengPod1000
> to work from the included SD Card? Tried holding presses for different
> lengths of time, tried repeating presses, tried getting the Neal Peacock
> PengPod 1000 to work from the included SD Card starting with the power
> on and also starting with the power off and using the PowerButton,
> ResetButton, RockerButtonVolumeUp/VolumeDown

Calm down.

A little history: Pengpod, the company, pretty-much doesn't exist
anymore and we're not and have never been Pengpod's support service.

There's no data on the linux-sunxi.org wiki about any of PengPod's
devices, so I can't give you any instructions specific to their
devices.

In general to boot an Allwinner device off an SD card, you format a SD
card with a specially built image, this puts all the required data in
all the right places. You then insert the card into your device and
reboot. The SoC finds that required data and boots from the SD card.

Exactly these instructions:

> The instructions didn't work...
> "To boot into Linux you must have wither a Linux SD care or a device
>  flashed with Linux. To boot from the Linux SD, starting in Android,
>  insert the card (it will show as 'damaged") and reset the device. The
>  screen should be blank for 15-30 seconds then boot into Linux."

If this isn't working, then either:
1. Your device doesn't support this (not sure if this is possible)
2. Your device is damaged
3. Your SD card is incorrectly formatted

Given that Pengpod gave the instructions above, it has to be one of 2 or 3.

You imply that your SD card was provided by PengPod, therefore it
should be formatted correctly. The only way this could get "damaged"
is if you've let Windows or MacOS mess with it or deleted or modified
the data on it in any way.

Check your device and SD card.

Thanks,

-- 
Julian Calaby

Email: [email protected]
Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/julian.calaby/

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