How to install on soldered eMMC storage?
by Peter Boy
Nowadays several SBC devices provide eMMC storage soldered and no longer removable. How to install on this?
My first idea was to first install on mSD card, boot, and from this repeat the installation with the eMMC target. But this doesn’t work at least with Server. It complains about duplicate UUID partition and aborts.
Do we need an additional target, e.g. (configured)disk.img that we can push via OTG to the eMMC?
Or any other, better, easier idea?
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Peter Boy
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arm-image-installer with Server, bug 2247872 & previously 2246871
by Peter Boy
I tried with latest rawhide 20240210.
It does not work out of the box yet. I got the same error messages.
I tried fix 2 as provided by David Teigland and added the target device temporarily with
lvmdevices —adddev /dev/mmcblk0
Before executing arm-image-installer. That works fine. A
lvmdevices —deldev /dev/mmcblk0
restores the original configuration nicely.
I also gave the other fix proposal, adding —-devices /dev/foo, to each vg* command a short try, but endet with a 'No command with matching syntax recognised.“ Obviously the script logic is a bit more complex than I realized at first short glance.
@pwhalen Please, could you test this variant? Or send me a valid patch for version 3.9 so that I can test it?
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Peter Boy
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PBoy(a)fedoraproject.org
Timezone: CET (UTC+1) / CEST (UTC+2)
Fedora Server Edition Working Group member
Fedora Docs team contributor and board member
Java developer and enthusiast
2 months, 3 weeks