Make SDcard image with sole purpose of eMMC receiving a fresh bootable Armbian image

[wwortel]

Certainly not a new item but havn't found an Armbian how-to.

Hardware: Rockchip rk3588 based hardware with both SDcard slot and eMMC memory.
Wish: make a SD card image that, when inserted in the SDcard slot, causes a bootable Armbian OS image to be written to eMMC from that SDcard, followed by boot from eMMC.
The bootable image should remain in its most compact form, to limit copy time, and only upon first boot from eMMC be made to use the entire eMMC.

Has this been explored already? Ideas on how-to?

[going]

5 часов назад, wwortel сказал:

Certainly not a new item but havn't found an Armbian how-to.

Hardware: Rockchip rk3588 based hardware with both SDcard slot and eMMC memory.
Wish: make a SD card image that, when inserted in the SDcard slot, causes a bootable Armbian OS image to be written to eMMC from that SDcard, followed by boot from eMMC.
The bootable image should remain in its most compact form, to limit copy time, and only upon first boot from eMMC be made to use the entire eMMC.

Has this been explored already? Ideas on how-to?

Do you mean that we need to make a boot image by analogy and similarity, as well-known distributions such as openSUSE, ubuntu do?

[wwortel]

Well, apparently my question was not clear. No, the purpose is to have the option of creating a .img Armbian OS for a rk3588s based system that when written onto a SDcard and inserted in the rk3588s hardware, that also has eMMC on board, writes a working Armbian image to eMMC, such that the SD card slot is only used once to get the image into the eMMC.

Reason being that not so experienced users find it a lot easier to write and insert a SD card, than to write into eMMC. Latter requires either access to serial console, or the use of Rockchip helper programs.

Thinking about it it would be like the original .img as binary file inside a .img that can be written to the SD card, with the effect that just enough u-boot and perhaps kernel start is done from the SD card to get the .img file, also on that card, into eMMC.  

[going]

19.11.2024 в 20:01, wwortel сказал:

Well, apparently my question was not clear. No, the purpose is to have the option of creating a .img Armbian OS for a rk3588s based system that when written onto a SDcard and inserted in the rk3588s hardware, that also has eMMC on board, writes a working Armbian image to eMMC, such that the SD card slot is only used once to get the image into the eMMC.

This is not a viable option.

 

[wwortel]

@going

What makes you think this is not viable? After all u-boot is able to start Armbian from either SD or eMMC, so why could it not be made to copy an image from one to the other?