Hello forum,
I'm new here, but I know about Arch more than a decade.
I just bought a Tinker Board S, which has a eMMC built-in. I don't like much the TinkerOS, so I would like to make my own steps, away from that OS.
On the other hand is rather complicated to set up services with such OS. I was expecting no needs for keyboard/display/mouse and to be able to go directly via ssh, wireless or wired. To much frustrations.
I read this post, but I doubt I can do the same on a eMMC.
The embedded MMC, works like a pendrive, once plugged into USB. But I can't figure out to arrange the kernel on the ESP, that the factory setup has. I've copied the kernel.part into ESP, but it doesn't work. I guess it should go somewhere/somehow different.
I have a lot to guess how extlinux,conf might permit dual booting.
I've coarsely read how the Rock3288 needs to be arranged for the boot, then it seems to me that is necessary some code in the first memory block to accommodate the first MCU steps. The I feel that the mentioned post lacks of details on how to prepare the boot loader and how to enable dual booting, if one wants it.
My intents are to set up a little server for home automation, so that might be a small footprint. I've been attracted by DietPI, which offer a plenty of alternatives, but it's a way which I don't like, a prepacked solution
Sorry for the rants, in a couple of days I just got nothing but frustrations.
EDIT
As of today September 5, 2018, the system is working and I also update to the latest packages.
There may be small issues, which I consider just a next step improvement.
Thanks to Mr Summers and the Armbian staff for the work done to achieve this.