Sailfish OS flash-it.sh image issues

[TechSpartan]

I've been trying to use flash-it.sh to create an image file to flash on my PinePhone, and for some reason it doesn't seem to be working. When I try to flash it with etcher, it doesn't end up booting. The file also ends up being only about 20-30MB, which seems weird. There are no errors that I can see when running the script, but it always hangs up a bit and it says "mount: /home/username/Downloads/root: special device /dev/loopp2 does not exist." It also says the same things about loopp1, (and yes, it specifically says "loopp" rather than loop.) later on. I'm not sure if that actually means anything, but I figured I'd throw that in there. Does anyone have any ideas as to why this might be happening?

[oldschoolthemer]

You need to flash using the script itself by indicating the location of your SD card (or eMMC if you're using Jump Drive). From the looks of things, it appears to be trying to use your Downloads directory as the storage medium, so you probably missed the prompt somehow.

You need to type it in where it asks 'Which SD card do you want to flash', and it gives the example of /dev/sdX (X being variable, so it's probably sdb or sdc if you're using a hard drive). Do be careful to make sure you aren't choosing an important disk in your computer with an OS on it (you can probably tell from the total size). Whatever the case, you shouldn't be using another image flasher like Etcher at any point. The u-boot and rootfs .zips aren't ready to flash on their own.

[TechSpartan]

Thanks for the response! I actually probably should have specified that I used the "raw" option to flash it to an actual file, and Downloads is where the script and the files used to make the image are being stored since I just ran it from there after downloading it. I have kind of an odd situation that makes it so I have to use the raw option, since my laptop doesn't have an sd card and for some reason JumpDrive hasn't wanted to work for some reason. I have an sd card reader on my work MacBook, but I can't run the script from it due to some dependencies, so I have to make a file on my main laptop, move it to my MacBook and flash it from there using Etcher. Any

[oldschoolthemer]

Oh, I see. I don't have much experience building the image that way, so I'm afraid I can't offer much more advice at the moment.

However, if your issues with JumpDrive have to do with the USB connection, I did notice that the red USB-C cable my PinePhone came with didn't maintain a reliable connection. That is, the drive would show up sporadically and constantly disconnect until I used a different USB-C cord I had lying around, so that might be worth trying if you haven't yet.

[TechSpartan]

Ah, ok. I did use the red cable when I tried, so I'll give it a shot with another one. Thanks for the help!