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23 Mar 2026
7 min

Backing up the eMMC: boot partitions, rootfs, and the force_ro trap

Before touching a bootloader, take a backup you can actually restore from. On an i.MX8M Plus that means four separate things, two of which a dd of the main device silently misses — and one that is not block data at all.

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