This is how you flash to eMMC easily
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(02-06-2021, 07:05 AM)mw4jet Wrote: I flashed jump drive to an SD card with BalenaEtcher on Windows 10. It works fine. I am not comfortable with terminal yet.... After booting jump drive and connecting the phone it shows six files on the eMMC:

boot
image(zipped)
initramfs(zipped)
and 3 "sun50i-a64-pinephone- 1.*.dtb" files.

Do I delete them all and flash just the Mobian image with BalenaEtcher?

Another question - if I later want to restore the PostmarketOS to the eMMC as original, can I just paste those files back or do they need to be flashed with BalenaEtcher? And how would multiple files be flashed?

Got it. Found a good video Smile

What you are seeing under windows is just the /boot partition of the image/card since that is in FAT format, there are other partitions that contain the acutal rootfs which Windows can't see. When you write an image with dd or etcher it overwrites the whole system so you don't have to mess with files.
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Messages In This Thread
This is how you flash to eMMC easily - by Luke - 03-16-2020, 02:25 PM
RE: This is how you flash to eMMC easily - by xalius - 02-06-2021, 03:19 PM
RE: This is how you flash to eMMC easily - by fxc - 11-17-2022, 11:36 AM
RE: This is how you flash to eMMC easily - by fxc - 11-24-2022, 06:51 AM
RE: This is how you flash to eMMC easily - by fxc - 11-24-2022, 02:33 PM
RE: This is how you flash to eMMC easily - by fxc - 12-25-2022, 05:13 PM

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