So, looking to create a CLI version of armbian-install. Only has to work with the rockpi-s and from the SD card to the eMMC.

Looking at this script:

 

If it works to clone the SD to eMMC (with some changes?) then I need to tell armbian to boot from the eMMC when the SD card isn't inserted, same way that armbian-install does.

Do I simply change the UUID line in /boot/armbianEnv.txt to the UUID of the eMMC, or do I need to edit /etc/fstab or ??

Edited February 15, 20251 yr by Meestor_X

Edited both /boot/armbianEnv.txt and /etc/fstab but it still doesn't boot. Blue light never even comes on.

Can anyone point me in the right direction on what needs to be done to make a partition boot?

Wish I could find an ELI5 document for how to create a bootable copy of an Armbian image using the command line.

the bootloader needs to be installed on emmc separately. armbian-install usually takes care of that.

How to debug boot issues: https://debug.armbian.de

Thank you for your reply.
Do you know what the command is for installing the bootloader? I want to automate the process and armbian-install doesn't seem to have a way to be run via command line. Reading and following the operation of armbian-install is next to impossible.

 

 

 

Would these be the correct commands?

dd if=/usr/lib/linux-u-boot-current-rockpi-s/idbloader.bin of=/dev/mmcblk0 seek=64 conv=notrunc status=none
dd if=/usr/lib/linux-u-boot-current-rockpi-s/uboot.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 seek=16384 conv=notrunc status=none
dd if=/usr/lib/linux-u-boot-current-rockpi-s/trust.bin of=/dev/mmcblk0 seek=24576 conv=notrunc status=none

 

Are the "seek" numbers always the same or do they need to be calculated?

You can take a look at the postinstall script from the u-boot package. It should be called sth like "/var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-u-boot-current-rockpi-s.postinst" and should be quite small, so easier to understand. You can extract the required commands from there.

Assuming it is similar to my u-boot installer, this could result in a script like this:

#!/bin/bash
source /usr/lib/u-boot/platform_install.sh
write_uboot_platform "$DIR" /dev/mmcblk0
sync

That way you don't have to handle the hardcoded sector offsets yourself (not sure, if these offsets would ever change - but if they do, then that will probably be reflected in the platform_install script).