Orange Pi Zero 3

[dr_toggleswitch]

Was anybody able to install to emmc on this unit?  I can't do it with nand-sata-install. It only shows my SD card.

[jimg]

On 4/13/2025 at 10:41 AM, dr_toggleswitch said:

Was anybody able to install to emmc on this unit?  I can't do it with nand-sata-install. It only shows my SD card.

 

I don't think the Orange Pi Zero 3 has emmc..

Edited yesterday at 01:06 AM by jimg

[dr_toggleswitch]

......... You are correct.

Well, that explains that.

The Kickpi I have has 8GB EMMC and I was wondering why I didn't see any reports of people installing to it.

[ag123]

I've not used a board which use EMMC (yet). They are more convenient, sometimes faster. While I'm not always against EMMC, some of the EMMC support is occasionally not very well documented / implemented, in particular by the vendors (e.g. how their boot rom selects booting from EMMC or SD). And that occasionally led to gotchas such as a boot fail in EMMC but it seem there isn't a way to recover from that etc.

EMMC add a bit more complexity to the boot process, in particular by the boot rom (on PCs used to be called BIOS) and it is necessary to see that all the different boot permutations are well supported, boot from SD, boot from EMMC, override from SD (e.g. if EMMC install fails) etc, reflash EMMC from SD etc.