REFORM-EMMC-BOOTSTRAP(1)

📦 version 1.71, in debian trixie

💖 NAME 💖

reform-emmc-bootstrap — bestie, this sets up /boot on your emmc when your / lives on the nvme 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

reform-emmc-bootstrap [--help]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so here's the vibe: this tool sets up your eMMC with a /boot partition, and that partition is what loads the OS off your SSD. it's giving "little bootloader housekeeping moment" 🎀

the way that you normally use this: you boot into a rescue system on an SD-card, and from there you migrate a system from one SoM to another. that's the whole plot. no cap. 💅

⚠️ WARNING, and I mean this fr fr: this tool will erase the contents of your eMMC. like, gone gone. back it up, queen. 😭

👑 OPTIONS 👑

  • --help — shows you this help and then dips out. that's it, that's the whole option. exit stage left. 🫶

🧚 what it can and can't do (iykyk)

ngl, this utility is not able to create a working /boot partition on eMMC for arbitrary installations. like, it's not out here doing magic for just any setup you throw at it. 🙈

what it currently understands is this lil list right here:

  • single partition on SSD with the rootfs
  • two partitions on SSD, one with the rootfs the other swap
  • the luks/lvm setup created by reform-setup-encrypted-disk

that's the list. that's the roster. if your setup isn't on it, this tool is not your girl. ⭐

and that's the tea, bestie 💜 this is reform-emmc-bootstrap version 1.71, dated December 2025 — go forth, migrate that system, and please back up your eMMC first, I am literally begging 🙏✨🌈

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