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Originally Posted by Elektron
Hypothetically you could just flash the armv7l Alpine image directly to the MicroSD but that would mean no nickel, right?
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Terribly bad idea. (Well not on internal SD card Kobos, though). If you brick the device, there's no way out. It's dead.
Maybe I would've tried this if I got into hacking Kobos in ~2015, but now with Kobo moving to soldered eMMC storage, I strongly prefer staying in the chroot/disk image fashion.
But to answer your question, you're right. It'd take a proper flash of the kernel/bootloader/initrd files in the first sector of the MicroSD (not in any partition, just raw data on the card), and the Kobo would've to be compatible with them. Maybe we could use the ones that are preinstalled and just reorganize the partition scheme, but I haven't tried that yet.
