Andrius Vainorius

The only solution is to do it as sns1081 suggested. Or you can try nano pi M6 dietpi IMG. That one works actually albeit with some glitches. I was never able to flash any of img from armbian directly. Images that actually works: rockchip Ubuntu (Joshua riek), but I read it's not maintained anymore (install via rkdevtool [Windows] or rkdeveloptool [Ubuntu, Linux mint doesn't work, didn't try other OS]. It supports VPU, that is you can watch 4K 60fps YouTube with few dropped frames (meaning that GPU/VPU drivers still not optimal, as android runs 8k). There is bredOS for rockchip3588 devices, which is arch based. If you're familiar with arch, it's easy. I kinda liked it as it boots from 90s BIOS style UEFI with clean and simple interface, where you can do some basic configs like changing .dtb and stuff :), but does not support you/gpu. Unfortunately all of OS'es installation done via mask ROM. Life would be much easier if it was possible to flash SD, insert into orange pi, copy OS to Emmc, change boot order to EMMC... Like you do in raspberry pi. What else? Btw building armbian or dietpi yourself bricks the device and then you need reflash it again. Will update if find anything else: haven't tried fedoras or SUSEs yet..

Probably no. And don't you dare to ask, unless you want to hear a long sermon about global warming and hunger in Africa :D

It comes under "Standard support"... Not sure what it means then, when you say otherwise. If I could edit that section, I would just add one line "unsupported/support very limited for Orange Pi 5B, unfortunately I'm not moderator and have no access to do that. Third I was only responding to a guy (being grateful to him), who actually helped to find a kind of solution to the problem. If moderators had time to write longish meaningless response (which was meaningless as this topic was only about "booting from EMMC" and not global armbian issues with everyone) , instead of changing one line in main page for the board to "community supported/unsupported"... Then I don't know...

And also Debian Cinnamon 6.12 has no hw support so you can remove Mesa/vpu tag

If you know how to do all the above mentioned steps in it. I was only successful with orangepi Debian and Joshua-Riek / ubuntu-rockchip

ok ok.. i'm sorry if i somehow insulted you, btw i already donated.. i understand it's your free time and you don't owe or need any software or anything... Maybe at least you could add a little note to orange pi 5 page that ''orange pi 5b boot from EMMC is not supported'' that's it. No-one will ever say anything then... Because misleading info (even if it's done for free) doesn't really look good in the long run to anyone (including You). BTW i wouldn't mind to buy proper armbian OS for a reasonable fee, because as for now i wasted days trying just to simply boot an OS. And as you know time is money as well. Peace

Sns1081 you're a genius. Your solution actually is the ONLY ONE working solution. For some reason armbian or dietpi or any other rockchip Linux just ignored this and claimed I was an idiot who's unable to "read official documentations "

It worked! You need to keep .img files in the same folder as rkdeveloptool folder and run everything as sudo. Thank You very much!!! andrius-vainorius@DELL-G5:~/rkdeveloptool$ sudo rkdeveloptool db rk3588_spl_loader_v1.15.113.bin Downloading bootloader succeeded. andrius-vainorius@DELL-G5:~/rkdeveloptool$ sudo rkdeveloptool wl 0 Armbianserver.img Write LBA from file (100%) andrius-vainorius@DELL-G5:~/rkdeveloptool$ sudo rkdeveloptool wl 64 idbloader.img Write LBA from file (100%) andrius-vainorius@DELL-G5:~/rkdeveloptool$

unfortunately rkdeveloptool was unable to do any flashing for unknown reason.. i guess i will try official app for windows

ups sorry... i see its linux app i thought you are talking about windows app from orange pi site will try this now

One little thing... I'm not entirely sure what to do with this idbloader.img? Where should I put it or flash it? Thanks a million! I will try it today definitely

Thanks a million! I will try it today definitely

I have OrangePi 5b and no matter what i tried, i was unable to boot ir from EMMC (official images boot normally from EMMC). I tried new rolling releases too, and they do not support boot from EMMC.