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 Wednesday 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.

 

[robertoj]

On 12/13/2024 at 9:06 PM, mantouboji said:

edge 6.11.9 kernel 

added symbolic link for overlay

Hello

Have you tried using the SPI pins under Linux 6.12?

[dr_toggleswitch]

I swapped OpenSSH server for Dropbear. Soooo much faster on this unit. Very noticeable. Easy to do on a headless install, just setup Dropbear on a different port than the default, reboot, sign in with that different port, disable & uninstall OpenSSH.