doytsujin/jumpdrive

Flash/Rescue SD Card image for PinePhone and PineTab

Jumpdrive

A swiss army knife for mobile devices, currently supporting:

• Pine64 PineTab
• Pine64 PinePhone
• Purism Librem 5

You can use this to flash a image directly to eMMC, troubleshooting a broken system, and a lot more.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Building
• List of projects being used in Jumpdrive

Installation

Download the latest image for your device here

PinePhone / PineTab

Then use dd to flash the image to an SD card. Jumpdrive is pretty small, so there is no need for a large storage SD card.

Insert the SD card to the device, then boot it up, you should get a nice splash screen and you should see a new storage device after you plug the device to USB.

With the device plugged in, you can now flash a distro, or fix a unbootable installation.

WARNING: In case eMMC isn't showing up try to charge your battery and try again. There are reports of people not being able to flash to eMMC with discharged battery.

Librem 5

Extract the downloaded JumpDrive release archive for the Librem 5, put the device into flash mode, then run the boot-purism-librem5.sh script from the release.

Building

The dependencies are:

• aarch64-linux-gnu- toolchain
• u-boot tools
• mtools

Additional dependencies for the Purism Librem 5:

• arm-none-eabi- toolchain
• uuu

$ git submodule update --init --recursive
Downloads the projects to build

$ make -j8 pine64-pinephone.img.xz
Builds everything needed for the pinephone image...

$ make -j8 initramfs-pine64-pinephone.gz
Generate only the initramfs for the pinephone

$ make -j8 all
Generates an image for every supported platform in parallel

This project is built on:

• Busybox - which is GPLv2.
• postmarketOS scripts - which is GPLv2.
• Pine64's kernel fork - which is GPLv2.
• U-Boot - which has multiple licenses