How to install and boot ROCK64 from eMMC?

[MarkHaysHarris777]

I understand that the process of flashing the OS to the eMMC module is rather complicated and far from streamlined.
Are there plans to somehow automate the process and make it more straightforward? It seems too much of a hassle and error-prone at the moment.

Yes,  of course there are plans to automate and streamline; always.  As noted above by martinayotte, the process is not so tricky that it is erratic or a major hassle (nor did I mean to imply that) but it is tricky; meaning, it is not a straight-forward streamlined process!

Having said that, the board is running very well from both the SD and the eMMC, and very soon it is also going to be booting from the SPI flash.  Some members of the team also have their Rock64 running from SSD and|or HDD;  and of course with the usb3.0 this is very very fast and efficient.  And unlike the Raspberry PI, this board does not have a shared "hub" bottle-neck-- it is going to be one dandy NAS server too!

I should also point out (for the sake of completeness and clarity) that the jumper is just an easy way to pull the clock line of the eMMC to ground!  ... if you think about that just a bit it means that the jumper could be automated under software control via gpio pin;  in such a way that the jumper is pulled "precisely" when it needs to be because the eMMC clock line is being released under control of the process running from SD.  This aspect is running wildly in my imagination right now and may not be possible soon;  so things will remain "tricky" for some time,  but not impossible and certainly not something to be afraid of.

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