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How do I write an android .img file to an external usb disk? (self.linux4noobs)
submitted 1 week ago by GustavoM to c/linux4noobs
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Title. I've tried using dd but it doesn't work -- the .img file is written but it does not boot. Thanks in advance.

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[–] GustavoM 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Only on Linux. The command was simply sudo dd if=image.img of=/dev/sda bs=1M.

which exact image you dd’ed

This one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

So, you dd'ed the Android image for Orange Pi 5 to an external drive and want to boot your OPi5 from that drive. As far as I remember, in order to do that for a Raspberry Pi, you need to 'tell' the system where to boot from. For OPi, I found some information on how achieve that for Debian/Ubuntu. For Android the steps should be somewhat similar.

[–] GustavoM 1 points 1 week ago

I've tried setting it to boot from an nvme, microsd and external and the result was the same -- the board just sits there with no boot. But, as I said previously, writing it to disk with their sketchy software worked as intended.

...I'm starting to think there is something wrong with the image file.