Converting a mender debian image for tinkerboad issue

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Hello, this is my first time using mender. I’ve followed the convert a mender debian image tutorial trying to get one image for Asus Tinkerboard.
I’m stuck in the last step, this is the output:

citysense@citysense-desktop:~/mender-convert$ sudo MENDER_ARTIFACT_NAME=release-1 ./docker-mender-convert
–disk-image input/golden-image-1.img
–config configs/mender_convert_config
–overlay rootfs_overlay_demo/
Running mender-convert --disk-image input/golden-image-1.img --config configs/mender_convert_config --overlay rootfs_overlay_demo/
Running mender-convert-extract: --disk-image input/golden-image-1.img --config configs/mender_convert_config --overlay rootfs_overlay_demo/
2020-11-20 18:04:43 [INFO] [mender-convert-extract] Using configuration file: configs/mender_convert_config
2020-11-20 18:04:43 [INFO] [mender-convert-extract] Using configuration file: configs/mender_convert_config
2020-11-20 18:04:43 [INFO] [mender-convert-extract] Validating disk image
2020-11-20 18:04:43 [INFO] [mender-convert-extract] Disk parsed successfully
2020-11-20 18:04:43 [INFO] [mender-convert-extract] NUMBER OF PARTS: 2 TYPE: dos
2020-11-20 18:04:43 [INFO] [mender-convert-extract] PART 1: SIZE: 64M TYPE: 0xc
2020-11-20 18:04:43 [INFO] [mender-convert-extract] PART 1: extracting to work/part-1.fs
2020-11-20 18:04:44 [INFO] [mender-convert-extract] PART 2: SIZE: 3.9G TYPE: 0x83
2020-11-20 18:04:44 [INFO] [mender-convert-extract] PART 2: extracting to work/part-2.fs
2020-11-20 18:09:34 [INFO] [mender-convert-extract] Extracting boot gap to work/boot-gap.bin
Running mender-convert-modify: --disk-image input/golden-image-1.img --config configs/mender_convert_config --overlay rootfs_overlay_demo/
2020-11-20 18:09:38 [INFO] [mender-convert-modify] Using configuration file: configs/mender_convert_config
2020-11-20 18:09:38 [INFO] [mender-convert-modify] Using configuration file: configs/mender_convert_config
2020-11-20 18:09:56 [INFO] [mender-convert-modify] Installing Mender client and related files
grep: work/boot/hdmi/hdmi_modes.txt: Input/output error
2020-11-20 18:10:10 [INFO] [mender-convert-modify] Found Linux kernel image in boot part, moving to rootfs/boot
2020-11-20 18:10:10 [INFO] [mender-convert-modify] Found Linux kernel image:

work/boot/zImage

2020-11-20 18:10:10 [WARN] [mender-convert-modify] Detected a kernel which does not have an EFI stub. This kernel is not supported when booting with UEFI. Please consider using a U-Boot port if the board has one (look for a board specific file in configs), or find a kernel which has the CONFIG_EFI_STUB turned on. To ignore this message and proceed anyway, set the MENDER_IGNORE_MISSING_EFI_STUB=1 config option.
2020-11-20 18:10:10 [INFO] [mender-convert-modify] Unfortunately we where not able to find the initrd image.
2020-11-20 18:10:10 [INFO] [mender-convert-modify] Please specify the image name using MENDER_GRUB_INITRD_IMAGETYPE (only required if your board is using this)
install: cannot create directory ‘…/boot/EFI’: Read-only file system
make: *** [Makefile:56: install-boot-files] Error 1
mender-convert-modify has finished. Cleaning up…
umount: work/boot: no mount point specified.
rm: cannot remove ‘work/rootfs’: Device or resource busy
rm: cannot remove ‘work/boot/zImage’: Read-only file system
rm: cannot remove ‘work/boot/rk3288-miniarm.dtb’: Read-only file system
rm: cannot remove ‘work/boot/overlays/ads7846-tinker.dtbo’: Read-only file system
rm: cannot remove ‘work/boot/overlays/audioinjector-addons.dtbo’: Read-only file system
rm: cannot remove ‘work/boot/overlays/camera-ov5647.dtbo’: Read-only file system
rm: cannot remove ‘work/boot/overlays/ds1307.dtbo’: Read-only file system
rm: cannot remove ‘work/boot/overlays/es90x8q2m-dac.dtbo’: Read-only file system
rm: cannot remove ‘work/boot/overlays/googlevoicehat-soundcard.dtbo’: Read-only file system
rm: cannot remove ‘work/boot/overlays/hifiberry-amp.dtbo’: Read-only file system
rm: cannot remove ‘work/boot/overlays/hifiberry-dac.dtbo’: Read-only file system
rm: cannot remove ‘work/boot/overlays/hifiberry-dacplus.dtbo’: Read-only file system
rm: cannot remove ‘work/boot/overlays/hifiberry-digi-pro.dtbo’: Read-only file system
rm: cannot remove ‘work/boot/overlays/hifiberry-digi.dtbo’: Read-only file system
rm: cannot remove ‘work/boot/overlays/iqaudio-dac.dtbo’: Read-only file system
rm: cannot remove ‘work/boot/overlays/iqaudio-dacplus.dtbo’: Read-only file system
rm: cannot remove ‘work/boot/overlays/iqaudio-digi-wm8804-audio.dtbo’: Read-only file system
rm: cannot remove ‘work/boot/overlays/justboom-dac.dtbo’: Read-only file system
rm: cannot remove ‘work/boot/overlays/justboom-digi.dtbo’: Read-only file system
rm: cannot remove ‘work/boot/overlays/lirc-rpi.dtbo’: Read-only file system
rm: cannot remove ‘work/boot/overlays/lirc-toshiba.dtbo’: Read-only file system
rm: cannot remove ‘work/boot/overlays/mcp2515-can0.dtbo’: Read-only file system
rm: cannot remove ‘work/boot/overlays/pitft35-resistive-tinker.dtbo’: Read-only file system
rm: cannot remove ‘work/boot/overlays/pps-gpio.dtbo’: Read-only file system
rm: cannot remove ‘work/boot/overlays/rpi-dac.dtbo’: Read-only file system
rm: cannot remove ‘work/boot/overlays/seeed-2mic-voicecard.dtbo’: Read-only file system
rm: cannot remove ‘work/boot/overlays/w1-gpio.dtbo’: Read-only file system
rm: cannot remove ‘work/boot/overlays/waveshare32b-tinker.dtbo’: Read-only file system
rm: cannot remove ‘work/boot/overlays/waveshare35a-tinker.dtbo’: Read-only file system
rm: cannot remove ‘work/boot/hw_intf.conf’: Read-only file system
rm: cannot remove ‘work/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf’: Read-only file system
rm: cannot remove ‘work/boot/extlinux/._extlinux.conf’: Read-only file system
rm: cannot remove ‘work/boot/wlan_preload.EXAMPLE’: Read-only file system
rm: cannot remove ‘work/boot/config.txt’: Read-only file system
rm: cannot remove ‘work/boot/._hw_intf.conf’: Read-only file system
rm: cannot remove ‘work/boot/hdmi/hdmi_modes.txt’: Read-only file system
rm: cannot remove ‘work/boot/System Volume Information/WPSettings.dat’: Read-only file system
rm: cannot remove ‘work/boot/System Volume Information/IndexerVolumeGuid’: Read-only file system

Any info will be very helpful.
Thanks a lot!

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Odd. Are you running on a Mac?

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Hi, no. I’m running on Ubuntu (Nvidia Jetson).

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There’s rpi and beaglebone config files, but none works. How can I make a config file for Tinkerboard Debian?

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I would imagine it’s similar to the other Debian configs that are available however each Board/OS combination may require customization. We do offer consulting services for this or if you do it yourself we would gladly accept a PR and a board integration post here.

Drew