Well the day has come and its time to restore my emmc with default Mr Fixit's Debian.
Although I have read with interest over the last several weeks the various posts in this forum regarding restoring the default Debian after an "event" has created a problem with their emmc I must confess I'm not sure the present state of affairs.
Can someone verify/clarify?
1. Is it safe and likely to succeed (without breaking the boot sector of the emmc) to use the following method to restore the default Debian to one's emmc? (Success defined as the resulting PBP restored to default Debian still with the ability to boot from an SD card if one is present .)
-- Quote from Surehand53 above:
"Steps:
- download an image and write it to a micro sd card
- start the PBP with the sd card
- then download the image of your choice
- write the image to the emmc card with the command dd"
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with example DD command:
where mmcblk1 is the target emmc
dd if=pinebookpro-debian-desktop-mrfixit-191123.img of=/dev/mmcblk1 status=progress
or if not
2. Is there a modification or finessing of the above technique that makes it more reliable/foolproof?
or if not
3. Should one just punt and start with using the method that requires one to obtain an emmc to usb/usd adapter discussed in various posts?
or something else?
Hope someone can weigh in with the definitive answer on this. Thanks.
Although I have read with interest over the last several weeks the various posts in this forum regarding restoring the default Debian after an "event" has created a problem with their emmc I must confess I'm not sure the present state of affairs.
Can someone verify/clarify?
1. Is it safe and likely to succeed (without breaking the boot sector of the emmc) to use the following method to restore the default Debian to one's emmc? (Success defined as the resulting PBP restored to default Debian still with the ability to boot from an SD card if one is present .)
-- Quote from Surehand53 above:
"Steps:
- download an image and write it to a micro sd card
- start the PBP with the sd card
- then download the image of your choice
- write the image to the emmc card with the command dd"
---------------------------------------------------------------------
with example DD command:
where mmcblk1 is the target emmc
dd if=pinebookpro-debian-desktop-mrfixit-191123.img of=/dev/mmcblk1 status=progress
or if not
2. Is there a modification or finessing of the above technique that makes it more reliable/foolproof?
or if not
3. Should one just punt and start with using the method that requires one to obtain an emmc to usb/usd adapter discussed in various posts?
or something else?
Hope someone can weigh in with the definitive answer on this. Thanks.