Armbian Debian 12 (Bookworm) Cinnamon Linux v6.1bricks EMMC on armbian-install

[z28z34man]

I have an orange pi 5b running Armbian_24.2.1_Orangepi5_bookworm_legacy_5.10.160_cinnamon_desktop on EMMC just fine.  i wanted to try a newer version with hardware acceleration so i tried Armbian_24.11.2_Orangepi5_bookworm_current_6.12.0_cinnamon-backported-mesa_desktop.  I edited the file in the boot folder and could see the EMMC on reboot.  i did a sudo apt update and sudo apt upgrade.  then an armbian-install to install it to the EMMC.  it would not boot from the EMMC but i could at least still see it.

 

Then i tried Armbian_24.11.2_Orangepi5_bookworm_vendor_6.1.75_cinnamon-backported-mesa_desktop and did the same but now i cant see the EMMC even with the original Armbian_24.2.1_Orangepi5_bookworm_legacy_5.10.160_cinnamon_desktop

 

i had another orange pi 5b so i tried to do the same thing, but this time not do an update and upgrade before the armbian-install and again i cant see the EMMC.

 

Is there anyway i can get the EMMC back.  both of them run fine off the micro SD card but i prefer running off the EMMC if possible. 

 

I am assuming it may have corrupted the EMMC and when Linux boots it doesn't add the drive.  Is there a way to manually add it after boot and reformat.

[z28z34man]

I was able to get the EMMC back by using RKDevTool V3.5 and flashing one of orange pi's Linux images to it.  The orange pi 5b manual has instruction for how to use RKDevTool.