You can use the method to flash small partition (boot, recovery etc.), but normally can not to
flash system partition.
Not exact matches
«The Pixel 2
system images release was a bit of a disaster because anyone using an old version of Fastboot would blindly
flash too few
partitions, potentially bricking their device,» it says in the commit.
After a lot of userdata
partition wipes,
system image
flashes, and log dumping, we finally booted the generic 8.0 build onto the Mate 9.
You can kill two birds with one stone here by
flashing a ZIP that will remove the problematic apps beforehand, which would free up space on the
System partition and prevent force closes after installing Xposed.
Fastboot / Bootloader mode allows you to
flash any
partition on any Android device, like
system, boot, cache, recovery.
But
Flash VOS didn't invent
partitions, didn't invent virtual machines, and didn't invent running multiple operating
systems on a single computer.
The one that I would
flash first is the
system image, since the version of SuperSU that TWRP installed was installed to your
system partition.
In other words, you might find a way to
flash custom firmware on the
system partition, but not the boot or recovery
partitions, for example.
The stock recovery must be entered when you are about to complete official operations such as apply update from ADB, wipe data / factory reset, wipe cache
partition and reboot
system, while custom recovery should be entered when trying to gain root access, install a custom ROM firmware,
flash a custom kernel, overclock the CPU, make Nandroid backups, remove bloatware and so on.