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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Nowadays several SBC devices provide eMMC storage soldered and no longer removable. How to install on this?
This is not a new thing.
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.
What do you mean by "repeat the installation" in this context. I have used this way in the past, but at times the way I deal with this on weird devices I am boot strapping may not what we want to propose.
Do we need an additional target, e.g. (configured)disk.img that we can push via OTG to the eMMC?
What do you mean by this?
Or any other, better, easier idea?
This can be very device, or at the very least SoC specific.
There are some devices where you can put it into a mode where the eMMC can be exported as a USB gadget storage device where you can just use arm-image-installer to write directly to eMMC over USB.
There's others where you can use a special tool to basically dd something to the storage using their special protocol over USB.
Because there's no one single way to do it I always just put it on the back burner because I've never had the time to look at a holistic way of making all the options available to users via a single tool front end.
Peter
El vie, 9 de feb de 2024 a las 11:52:21 AM, Peter Boy pboy@uni-bremen.de escribió:
My first idea was to first install on mSD card, boot, and from this repeat the installation with the eMMC target.
Which tool are you using to install the OS image to your media (mSD, eMMC)?
But this doesn’t work at least with Server. It complains about duplicate UUID partition and aborts.
What you can do is: Install an OS image to the mSD different from the one that you want on the eMMC (maybe use Fedora Minimal, or even a different OS), then boot from your mSD, and write your desired image to the eMMC using something like `dd`. This way would not be a duplicated UUID.
That's how I did on my Pinebook Pro, which does have a removable eMMC, but I didn't want to disasemble the computer.
Am 09.02.2024 um 19:34 schrieb Jesús Abelardo Saldívar Aguilar jasaldivara@gmail.com:
El vie, 9 de feb de 2024 a las 11:52:21 AM, Peter Boy pboy@uni-bremen.de escribió:
My first idea was to first install on mSD card, boot, and from this repeat the installation with the eMMC target.
Which tool are you using to install the OS image to your media (mSD, eMMC)?
arm-image-installer
But this doesn’t work at least with Server. It complains about duplicate UUID partition and aborts.
What you can do is: Install an OS image to the mSD different from the one that you want on the eMMC (maybe use Fedora Minimal, or even a different OS), then boot from your mSD, and write your desired image to the eMMC using something like `dd`. This way would not be a duplicated UUID.
Thanks, that worked. I used Minimal raw-xz which thankfully doesn’t start a graphical desktop and uses good old ext4 for everything (and different UUIDs of course).
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On Fri, 9 Feb 2024, 04:52 Peter Boy, pboy@uni-bremen.de wrote:
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.
This should work. But you would need to remove the mSD card to boot from the eMMC.
Do we need an additional target, e.g. (configured)disk.img that we can push via OTG to the eMMC
Some boards have ways to do this. It would help if you mentioned the board you are talking about. You can probably also just boot an installer image and do an install onto the eMMC using anaconda. But to give any tips on this we would need to know the board.
Dennis
Or any other, better, easier idea?
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