Where is the Pinephone eMMc?
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As a side note, here's an interesting issue that I haven't found mentioned anywhere.

After booting from a Micro SD card and writing the image to the eMMC, if you boot the phone (or laptop) again from the same SD card, it might happen that the /boot partition from the eMMC gets mounted in Linux instead of the same, correct /boot partition on the SD card.  Then, if you perform some system changes or updates that alter the contents of /boot, such as updating the kernel packages, you end up with one part of the updates applied to the wrong /boot partition.

The solution is to change the label of the /boot partition on the SD card prior to using it for subsequent boots, so the label is no longer the same as the label of the /boot partition on the eMMC.

Edit: Actually, the same can also happen to the root partition.
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Where is the Pinephone eMMc? - by tgz - 01-09-2021, 01:32 AM
RE: Where is the Pinephone eMMc? - by evilbunny - 01-09-2021, 01:59 AM
RE: Where is the Pinephone eMMc? - by tgz - 01-09-2021, 02:08 AM
RE: Where is the Pinephone eMMc? - by evilbunny - 01-09-2021, 03:11 AM
RE: Where is the Pinephone eMMc? - by tgz - 01-09-2021, 09:53 AM
RE: Where is the Pinephone eMMc? - by dsimic - 01-10-2021, 10:58 AM
RE: Where is the Pinephone eMMc? - by 7horns7eyes - 02-07-2021, 01:37 AM
RE: Where is the Pinephone eMMc? - by dsimic - 02-10-2021, 12:05 AM
RE: Where is the Pinephone eMMc? - by 7horns7eyes - 02-08-2021, 12:11 AM
RE: Where is the Pinephone eMMc? - by TRS-80 - 02-10-2021, 11:12 AM
RE: Where is the Pinephone eMMc? - by dsimic - 02-10-2021, 12:26 PM
RE: Where is the Pinephone eMMc? - by TRS-80 - 02-10-2021, 02:47 PM
RE: Where is the Pinephone eMMc? - by dsimic - 02-10-2021, 06:24 PM

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