How to flash the eMMC on a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4

How do you flash a new OS onto the eMMC built into a Compute Module 4?

It's simple! In this video, I'll show you how. And for those who don't like watching videos, here's a blog post that goes along with the video: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/how-flash-raspberry-pi-os-compute-module-4-emmc-usbboot

Here's the usbboot download link: https://github.com/raspberrypi/usbboot

Here's the Raspberry Pi Foundation's official documentation for Flashing the Compute Module eMMC: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/computemodule/cm-emmc-flashing.md

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Contents:

00:00 - CM4 with eMMC vs CM4 Lite
00:15 - Set J2 jumper for eMMC MSD
01:10 - Download usbboot
01:25 - Windows setup
01:49 - Mac / Linux setup
02:39 - Flashing Pi OS to eMMC
02:50 - Other tricks like EEPROM