PROCEDURE TO FLASH eMMC

[whysguy52]

I "bicked" eMMC of my TBS in the first day of use, today I managed to boot TBS from eMMC for the first time. Here is what I did:

0. Boot your TBS using SD card, use terminal or SSH to input following commands.

1. Download TinkerOS distribution and unzip: 

Code:

wget [link***]
unzip 20180622-tinker-board-linaro-stretch-alip-v2.0.7.img.zip

2. Delete old partitions from eMMC(mmcblk1 in my case):

Code:

sudo fdisk /dev/mmcblk1
d
1
2
w

3. Reboot TBS.

4. Unpack image file to the cleaned partition:

Code:

sudo dd if=20180622-tinker-board-linaro-stretch-alip-v2.0.7.img of=/dev/mmcblc1 status=progress && sync

After this you should be able to boot your TBS form eMMC, do not forget to change jumper to the parking position. Result is not optimal through - root partition on eMMC created by dd tool is only 3GB, rest left not used, I do not know why it happened, and I do not know how to change partition size in fdisk tool, so I used gparted tool to increase root partition on eMMC to use all available space.

I'm complete noob to linux & terminal, so do not blame my solution for the incompetence, on the other hand optimization tips are appreciated.

***P.S. I can not post links, so you have to find workable link for Tinker OS distribution by yourself, I used archive provided on this website wiki section.

Holy crap this actually worked. I've searched dozens of tutorials and nothing, not even the tinker boards own wiki was helpful. I think the key was writing that table using the fdisk tool. The 'd', '1' and '2' didn't do anything in my case but the 'w' did something and i was finally able to boot from emmc after finishing the rest of your instructions. 

quick question though. When you say the root partition was only 3GB, do you mean your file browser said "Free space: 3GB" or something like that? because mine is saying i have 11.6GB (14.3 total) and I didn't have to expand anything. the difference (14.3 - 11.6 = 3) is about 3GB. Is that what you meant? Being a noob, should I still need to expand the partition or is it already expanded?