Problem Flashing Minisforum S100

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New to balena so am very much still learning my way around.

I’m using the generic x86_64 gpt dev image and written it to a USB and booted my S100. The lack of boot menu and console output threw me at first until I eventually got a ping back and could use the client tools to remotely access the device. I then noticed that the resin-root was on my usb and that the internal ufs storage of the S100 was untouched. I recut the USB and confirmed it was the flasher image and started again…same thing happened. I then find this old thread and think I have the same problem.

My usb is always /dev/sda and the ufs storage is /dev/sdb. I tried the tmp fix mentioned in the other thread but this hasn’t worked.

Any help appreicated.

K

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Hi @kelvin, and welcome to the community.

What might work is mounting the flash-rootA partition on the flasher image (it’s an ext4 partition), locate the /etc/resin-init-flasher.conf file, and customize the INTERNAL_DEVICE_KERNEL in there to place first the drive where you want the installation to happen.

Let us know if that works.

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Hi @kelvin , any update on this?

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Sorry no progress, doubt I’ll revisit.