does you .xz file include both mainline uboot and mainline kernels ? if so, chances are high that it can boot from emmc right away ,
here is what I’ll try…
the long command line worked (as root), xfce manjaro 20.08 mid august official was flashed from the cloud directly to my emmc (but simultaneous display of the progress of the 3 commands got a bit confused) , on the command line of another experimental 20.08 manjaro booted from µSDcard,
I had a quirk typing the password the 1st time after boot from emmc (my kbd layout was an unexpected qwerty instead of the azerty as i wanted);
next post and additional info will be sent on the vim1…
as promised, here is my 1st post from the august arm manjaro xfce release (connected to cloud ove ethernet, embedded wifi not listing any ssid and maybe not event started…) with a screen shot :
there is this issue:
keyboard layout selected during manjaro setup is not used at the xfce manual gui login dialog for entering the password: which is a bad user experience.
workaround is to force autologin following these instructions: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/302400/auto-login-on-xfce-in-jessie
who made this image (again same mistakes like before - i have writen all image requirements for @Spikerguy already before - i can write it again - if he want make good image wellcome )
As this image ( once decompressed) can be flashed to emmc and should include mainline uboot, I thought it was ready also for being transformed by you into kresq format, what is wrong ?
estimated time of completion is around 12minutes, on my vim1 and on a slow 1.5Mbps internet connection
final message was…
0+635905 records in
0+635905 records out
5525995520 bytes (5.5 GB, 5.1 GiB) copied, 673.809 s, 8.2 MB/s
now let’s boot from that card…!
EDIT: bs=4M apparently is wrong as i have some inconsistency issue on the FS on the sdcard and it refuses to boot, so i redo the command w/ bs=1M as I used successfylly in the past…
EDIT: using bs=1M fixed the issue! manjaro is able to boot and installer is started, 1st question asked is about kbd layout, but in my case i am stuck because all usb ports on my vim1 are fried, so i cannot go farther, unless I find a way to use a console session to do all the required configurations before the gui even starts kde…!?
PS: i think next time manjaro mantainers can make it - its must be very easy - and i can provide only redirect link for krescue to official manjaro images
PSS: if anybody have some questions welcome
PSSS: this instructions not only for manjaro its universal for any other linux and not only linux os
another good news @Spikerguy ,
i can now report about installing,configuring and running manjaro 20.08 KDE variant on my vim1 as well;
I managed to configure it from a console session after 1st boot (just login as root w/o passwd, then follow the instructions),
and I also managed to make it use my BT mouse and BT keyboard and not a single USB hid device ever.
here is a kudos image of KDE in action on vim1 (from where I also post this)…
as the present xfce variant distro has some error messages spammed in dmesg, I’ve raised an issue in the appropriate community (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/3493) and some workaround is proposed, waiting for kernel 5.8rc7+ where the permanent fix shall be inserted!