EMMC Not Detected on T95 mini

[BliteKnight]

Hello,

 

I have been looking for a cheap linux box and stumbled upon the T95mini, this forum and many other blog sites. I know TV Boxes especially Allwinner based ones are not supported and a lone member of this community (and maybe others) have brought them along to where they are now.

 

My question is, I happen to have a T95mini with a 16GB emmc that boots just fine from the SD card, but when I try to run the nand-sata-install script, it is not detecting my emmc module. The section of the script that checks for the module only finds the sd card /dev/mcblk0 /dev/mmcblk0p1
 

I opened it up to make sure there was an emmc module in there and there was

 

A close up shows its a samsung klmag2geac (16GB Emmc)

 

So my question is, I know hardware components change which is why most TV boxes are not supported - but how would I go about get this version of balbes150 armbian image

Armbian_21.11.0-trunk_Aw-h6-tv_bullseye_current_5.10.68.img
 

to detect the emmc? Do I need to modify the device tree to make that happen and if so what information would I be looking for.

 

Thanks for any help.

 

 

 

 

[BliteKnight]

For anyone coming to this post facing the same issue - I solved my problem.

 

Following the guide here: https://forum.inovato.com/post/building-armbian-from-source-12449428?pid=1333459893

 

I was able to build the latest from trunk - Armbian_23.02.0-trunk_Aw-h6-tv_bullseye_current_5.15.91 which I was able to boot from an SD card and then write to the boards emmc

The guide applies some patches to the build process - one of which is an emmc patch, which I'm going to assume fixed the issue.

 

It took 4+ hrs to build the image on a single core linux VM, so if you are going to attempt this just know it will take that long to make the image.