Flashing from SDcard/USB stick to eMMC#

You can flash the content of a SDCard/USB stick to the eMMC of the device

  • boot up the device

  • login into the shell (default root, no password)

  • run

$ distro-installer

The installation will now replicate the SDCard/USB stick onto the eMMC, including all files and settings.

This could, depending on the size of the SDCard/USB stick take a moment.

Once finished with Image successfully installed onto /dev/mmcblk2 you can change the boot options on your EP1/EP5 and boot up the same system from eMMC.

Note

During the installation, paths in /etc/ are changed from the old boot medium to eMMC paths. If you have configuration outside of this path that refers to hardcoded paths to /dev/mmcblk, these need to be adjusted. It is possible to do it manually or to set the SIMPLECORE_DISTRO_INSTALLER_HOOK variable in the distro-installer recipe to run some extra shell commands.