Formatting Armbian without rebooting

[Ahmet Emin Koçal]

Hi,

I have a Opi+2 board which has an Armbian system installed in its emmc. Now I want to format its Emmc and reinstall Armbian but the problem is I don't have a proper SD card. So I need to do it without an SD card.

I have a running system on it, so I can reach the working system. Is there a way of formating it while its running? For example  a command does the same thing with "dd if=armbian.img of="/dev/mmcblk1"" (which won't work while there is a system working, its just an example)

 

(mmcblk1 = working system, emmc)

[tkaiser]

11 minutes ago, Ahmet Emin Koçal said:

So I need to do it without an SD card

 

Only way is via USB and FEL mode: https://github.com/zador-blood-stained/fel-mass-storage

[Ahmet Emin Koçal]

2 minutes ago, tkaiser said:

 

Only way is via USB and FEL mode: https://github.com/zador-blood-stained/fel-mass-storage

This is almost exacly what I was looking for a few minutes ago, thank you so much!

[Ahmet Emin Koçal]

20 minutes ago, tkaiser said:

 

Only way is via USB and FEL mode: https://github.com/zador-blood-stained/fel-mass-storage

But how can I boot it in fel mode and write the armbian image? I couldn't find anything related to them

[Ahmet Emin Koçal]

24 minutes ago, tkaiser said:

 

Only way is via USB and FEL mode: https://github.com/zador-blood-stained/fel-mass-storage

I did it thank you! BTW İt feels amazing to format it without an sd card