I’m trying to flash an /e/ GSI onto a Xiaomi Redmi 8A (olivelite) device.
My first attempts lead to a broken device that boots straight into fastboot every time. Flashing system.img worked without an error message.
I did skip the Remove dm verity
step that is outlined in the official guide in the hope that it would work anyway, but, well, it didn’t.
My problem with this is, it says to do it either using TWRP, which does not seem to exist for that particular device model, or to do so by “extracting the kernel and reflashing it”.
However, the GSI offered on the /e/ website only contains one single system.img
file, not the boot.img
used in that particular command. Could this possibly refer to some boot.img
file from the original MIUI ROM? If so, what is a safe way to get my hands on that file?