eMMC flashing with rkdeveloptool
I'm trying to flash the Debian 9 image provided by RockChip/Libre Computer to the eMMC on my Renegade board. My desktop machine is running Debian 9 as well. I've been using the instructions here:
https://roc-rk3328-cc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/flash_emmc.html
The eMMC module is a v5.0 I purchased from Loverpi and came with the USB A to USB A cable. I downloaded, compiled and installed rkdeveloptool from github, connected as per the instructions and ran rkdeveloptool ld:
rkdeveloptool ld
DevNo=1 Vid=0x2207,Pid=0x320c,LocationID=303 Maskrom
So it looks like the board is there and in Maskrom mode. Since the eMMC modules come with an Android image for the Le Potato board you don't have to connect the two test pads on the ROC board to force it into Maskrom apparently.
However, doing anything else to the board in rkdeveloptool just shoots out errors:
rkdeveloptool rci
Read Chip Info failed!
rkdeveloptool td
Test Device failed!
I tried running rkdeveloptool as root with the same results. I also can't seem to find the bootloader image the instructions say I need for a raw image, did they remove that from github? Also tried the other utility (update_tool I think it's called) with the same results.
The board itself runs fine off the microSD card and I can use cfdisk to see the eMMC when it's booted from microSD. From that I'm guessing the parts are all in functioning order. Any ideas?
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I couldn't get rkdeveloptool or update_tool to work for me either. So I installed Armbian on a micro SDcard, followed by gparted and gnome-disk-utility. I then formatted the eMMC with gparted and flashed the image I needed to the eMMC using gnome-disk-utility.
It ran a little sketchy, but it got the job done.
I flashed a LibreElec image I built for the board. But i'd imagine this method should work with any .IMG file.
Ah, don't know why I didn't think about that! Booted from a Debian image on SD and used dd to write to the eMMC. Only problem is now that it skips the SD card if the eMMC is present so if I need to reflash in the future I've got to come up with a way to do that. But so far that works!
I'm having the same issue (want to replace the img that comes with the eMMC module) but the board always boots first from the eMMC not the SD card. Is there a way to force SD first?
@pmlopes
As far as I know, there is currently no way to boot off the SDCARD if the eMMC is attached.
I suggest trying the method mentioned above (which requires booting from SDCARD and then attaching the eMMC) or you can try this method.