Install System to eMMC via microSD Boot Disk

File download

• Loader: RK3588_SPL_Loader_v1.15.113.bin

• ROCk 5 ITX (Kernel 5.10): Radxa ROCK 5 ITX Debian11 b6

• ROCK 5 ITX (Kernel 6.1): Radxa ROCK 5 ITX Debian12 b3

• SPI Image: spi_image.img

• Android: MiniLoader.bin

• Android（Boot from SD）: Android12_ROCK5_ITX_hdmi0_dp0_dp1_dsi0_gpt

• Android（Boot from EMMC）: Android12_ROCK5_ITX_hdmi0_dp0_dp1_dsi0_update

• Android（Boor from SSD）: Android12_ROCK5_ITX_hdmi0_dp0_dp1_dsi0_spi_nvme

For third-party systems, please refer to Resource Download

Creating a boot disk

Refer to Making a microSD boot disc above, we will use it as a base to install the system into eMMC.

Logging in to the system

Login to the system via serial port or HDMI.

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The password is radxa.

Enable Overlay

ROCK 5 ITX's eMMC is disabled by default, we need to enable overlay in the system via Device Tree Configuration to enable eMMC.

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1. Please enable the [] Enable SDCHI item Overlay. 2.
2. Quit and reboot after [*] Enable SDCHI is successfully displayed for the configuration to take effect.

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Viewing eMMC devices

Open a terminal and use the command lsblk to view the mmc device.

radxa@rock-5-itx:~$ lsblk
NAME         MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
mtdblock0     31:0    0   16M  0 disk
mmcblk1      179:0    0 29.3G  0 disk
|-mmcblk1p1  179:1    0   16M  0 part /config
|-mmcblk1p2  179:2    0  300M  0 part /boot/efi
`-mmcblk1p3  179:3    0   29G  0 part /
mmcblk0      179:32   0 29.1G  0 disk
|-mmcblk0p1  179:33   0    4M  0 part
|-mmcblk0p2  179:34   0    4M  0 part
|-mmcblk0p3  179:35   0    4M  0 part
|-mmcblk0p4  179:36   0    4M  0 part
|-mmcblk0p5  179:37   0    4M  0 part
|-mmcblk0p6  179:38   0    1M  0 part
|-mmcblk0p7  179:39   0   40M  0 part
|-mmcblk0p8  179:40   0  123M  0 part
|-mmcblk0p9  179:41   0  372M  0 part
|-mmcblk0p10 179:42   0  384M  0 part
|-mmcblk0p11 179:43   0   16M  0 part
|-mmcblk0p12 179:44   0    1M  0 part
|-mmcblk0p13 179:45   0  5.2G  0 part
`-mmcblk0p14 179:46   0   23G  0 part
mmcblk0boot0 179:64   0    4M  1 disk
mmcblk0boot1 179:96   0    4M  1 disk
zram0        254:0    0  3.9G  0 disk [SWAP]

eMMC defaults to mmcblk0

Install the system to eMMC

See [file download](#file download) for details of the image file, below is rock-5-itx_debian_bullseye_kde_b3.img.xz as an example.

radxa@rock-5-itx:~$ sudo xzcat /home/radxa/rock-5-itx_debian_bullseye_kde_b3.img.xz | dd of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1M status=progress

Booting the system

After shutting down the system, powering down, disconnecting the Micro SD card, and then powering up, the system boots from eMMC.