Skip to content
AML-S805X-AC (La Frite)

Flashing eMMC

Flashing eMMC

Requirements 1

Connection

  1. Connect a USB Type A to USB Type A cable to your computer.

Info

USB port to use in La Frite is the closest to the IR sensor and to the pin header.

  1. When booting, press escape to go into the boot menu.

  2. Select eMMC USB Drive Mode.

Success

On your computer, the eMMC module should now be listed as a block storage device.

Logs:

  *** U-Boot Boot Menu ***

     Boot
     Boot USB
     Boot PXE
     Boot DHCP
     EtherealOS
     eMMC USB Drive Mode
     fastboot USB Mode
     Reboot
     U-Boot console


  Press UP/DOWN to move, ENTER to select
[ 4596.518464] usb 1-3.1.3: new high-speed USB device number 13 using xhci_hcd
[ 4596.518975] usb 1-3.1.3: Device not responding to setup address.
[ 4601.862350] xhci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: Timeout while waiting for setup device command
[ 4602.070255] usb 1-3.1.3: device not accepting address 13, error -62
[ 4602.150301] usb 1-3.1.3: new high-speed USB device number 14 using xhci_hcd
[ 4602.171132] usb 1-3.1.3: New USB device found, idVendor=1b8e, idProduct=fada, bcdDevice=99.99
[ 4602.171137] usb 1-3.1.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[ 4602.171141] usb 1-3.1.3: Product: USB download gadget
[ 4602.171143] usb 1-3.1.3: Manufacturer: Libre Computer
[ 4602.191318] usb-storage 1-3.1.3:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[ 4602.191398] scsi host6: usb-storage 1-3.1.3:1.0
[ 4602.191474] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[ 4602.193266] usbcore: registered new interface driver uas
[ 4603.207018] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Linux    UMS disk 0       ffff PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[ 4603.207691] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
[ 4603.207947] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdd] 15269888 512-byte logical blocks: (7.82 GB/7.28 GiB)
[ 4603.208083] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off
[ 4603.208086] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 0f 00 00 00
[ 4603.208220] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdd] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 4603.254568]  sdd: sdd1 sdd2 sdd3
[ 4603.257066] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 4603.890176] raid6: avx2x4   gen() 25717 MB/s
[ 4603.958192] raid6: avx2x4   xor() 23047 MB/s
[ 4604.026173] raid6: avx2x2   gen() 33244 MB/s
[ 4604.094172] raid6: avx2x2   xor() 20945 MB/s
[ 4604.162171] raid6: avx2x1   gen() 26565 MB/s
[ 4604.230172] raid6: avx2x1   xor() 17171 MB/s
[ 4604.298170] raid6: sse2x4   gen() 16131 MB/s
[ 4604.366168] raid6: sse2x4   xor()  9875 MB/s
[ 4604.434162] raid6: sse2x2   gen() 13565 MB/s
[ 4604.502176] raid6: sse2x2   xor()  9267 MB/s
[ 4604.570163] raid6: sse2x1   gen() 12410 MB/s
[ 4604.638161] raid6: sse2x1   xor()  6949 MB/s
[ 4604.638162] raid6: using algorithm avx2x2 gen() 33244 MB/s
[ 4604.638162] raid6: .... xor() 20945 MB/s, rmw enabled
[ 4604.638163] raid6: using avx2x2 recovery algorithm
[ 4604.644765] xor: automatically using best checksumming function   avx
[ 4604.693549] Btrfs loaded, crc32c=crc32c-intel
[ 4604.695235] BTRFS: device label SYSTEM devid 1 transid 665 /dev/sdd2 scanned by systemd-udevd (8651)
[ 4604.849219] BTRFS info (device sdd2): disk space caching is enabled
[ 4604.849264] BTRFS info (device sdd2): has skinny extents
[ 4604.896235] BTRFS info (device sdd2): checking UUID tree
sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdd

Disk /dev/sdd: 7.29 GiB, 7818182656 bytes, 15269888 sectors
Disk model: UMS disk 0
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: A38BEDA8-7A62-4EE1-B853-2EBB2C83C622

Device        Start      End  Sectors  Size Type
/dev/sdd1      2048   524287   522240  255M EFI System
/dev/sdd2    524288 13631487 13107200  6.3G Linux root (ARM-64)
/dev/sdd3  13631488 15269854  1638367  800M Linux swa
mmc@74000: 0 (eMMC)
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc0(part 0) is current device
Press Control+C to end USB Drive mode.
UMS: LUN 0, dev 0, hwpart 0, sector 0x0, count 0xe90000
|crq->brequest:0x0

Start flashing

sudo dd if=/home/pd/Downloads/libre-computer-aml-s805x-ac-debian-buster-headless-mali-4.19.64+-2019-08-05.img of=/dev/sdd

Last update: June 28, 2020