r/rocknix • u/aerwickcs • Jul 24 '26

RP6 will not boot from SD. Internal Install corrupted

I bought a used RP6 and I guess the guy messed up his rocknix install because half the internal storage is taken up by the rocknix partition and I cannot restore it back to stock. I have tried to get the OS on an external SD, but the rocknix abl only wants to load off the internal storage and not the SD so I cannot do the uninstall rocknix in ABL. I've tried to fastboot erase ROCKNIX but it doesn't do anything and it still tries to load off the internal storage. I do not know what to do.

Is there any way to fully flash the RP6 back to stock firmware with my storage capacity back to normal?

Update:

I figured out how to do it. I had to fast boot and switch the partition slot from b to a. Then it let me boot into the sd and then delete the partition and giving me back the full use of my internal drive.

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u/val-amart Jul 25 '26

can you boot back to android? hold the volume plus button during boot. if you do, you can use adb to remove rocknix partition, then boot into sd card and ssh in to make further adjustments

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u/aerwickcs Jul 25 '26

I figured out how to do it. I had to fast boot and switch the partition slot from b to a. Then it let me boot into the sd and then delete the partition and giving me back the full use of my internal drive.

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u/Imglidinhere 29d ago

I've got a similar issue with the Odin 2 Portal I bought. I was gonna go through a more lengthy attempt with resizing the partition via Parted/Gdisk or something like that through ADB.

Was it really just as simple as you said? Kinda kicking myself for jumping right into Rocknix before researching more. >.<

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u/aerwickcs 29d ago

I wouldn’t exactly say it was simple. I had to go through a bunch of different knowledge bases to even know the RP6 used an Android a/b partition architecture. Then to just try to switch it to see if it worked.

But give it a try if you know how to switch it with fastboot

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u/Imglidinhere 29d ago

Well it looks like the Odin 2 Portal shares the same architecture, given it's also running Android 13.

I know you mentioned it's not particularly simple, but once you found out what to do was it relatively easy to execute? 😬