REFORM-E...BOOTSTRAP(8)

✨ REFORM-EMMC-BOOTSTRAP ✨

ok so bestie, welcome to the reform-emmc-bootstrap manual page — it lives in section 8 (System Administration Utilities) and it's giving big "i fix your boot situation" energy 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

reform-emmc-bootstrap — set up /boot on emmc for / on nvme 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

reform-emmc-bootstrap [--help]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the vibe: this tool sets up your eMMC with a /boot partition that loads the OS from the SSD. literally that's the whole job. ✨

you usually run it from a rescue system on an SD-card, to migrate a system from one SoM to another. it's giving glow-up relocation 🧚

⚠️ WARNING: this tool will erase the contents of your eMMC. not "maybe". not "sometimes". it will. back your stuff up first, i'm so serious 😭

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💖 OPTIONS 💖

• --help — Display this help and exit. that's it, that's the option, and honestly? iconic minimalism. 👑

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🌈 the fine print (also in DESCRIPTION) 🌈

ngl, this utility is not able to create a working /boot partition on eMMC for arbitrary installations. it's picky, it has taste, it has a type. currently it understands:

• 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-nvme

if your setup isn't one of those three, this tool is not the one, bestie 🙈

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that's the whole page!! you read it, you understood it, you slayed it 💜

this has been reform-emmc-bootstrap 1.68, fresh from February 2025, brought to you by the System Administration Utilities corner of the manual. periodt. 💅✨🎀