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No sadly. I've had some other things get in the way. Given that I have to build my own boot image and other things. I'll need to hunker down and figure it out. I'll see if I can get something going later this week. I've been enjoying the extra space in HOS lol, but yeah...

Looks as though booting android/linux off EMMC is a bit more complicated than I thought. I'll have to compile a custom boot.scr binary, and add EMMC entries to the dts portion of the boot process? Once I have built that I'll add them to the thread for others to use. A ton of this is super new...

I'll play around with somethings prior to getting the initial setup done. I'll see if the switch and hekate can support a Fat32 partition that's made on the EMMC itself. If it works you would still need to boot into RCM, but you'd have everything running from the EMMC itself. To give everyone...

You will most likely still need to boot from a payload in order for this to work. Unless hekate gets rewritten to support booting from the EMMC chip itself. Not sure if you can set it up as an SD and boot drive.

Finally got it! I’ll be posting a write up soon.

The flag for the main FAT partition needs to be 0C. Gdisk will be your friend.

Did you restore an image to the partition, or did you copy your files manually?

Awesome. Thanks for the guide! It seems as though my suspicions weren’t unfounded. Seems like we do have to write the android image to SD first before an easy change can be made. I’ve been trying to do this manually for the past week or two, but I’ve always failed because I never got the...

Thanks for the link. Since we would need the board that connects the EMMC to the switch. I'd preferably only want to promote the full unit(The board and the new EMMC already soldered to it.). Some on here might be technically savvy, but it might be too daunting of a task to also have to solder...

Thanks for the info! I’m hoping that all that is needed is to write some images to a few properly appropriated partitions and some configuration here and there. L4T, and android call to different partitions and sector counts. So right now the biggest hurdle would be to change how each os finds...

If anyone who's interested could find a source for the 128gb EMMC module. I'd be more than happy to share it. Mine is still in transit and it was pretty expensive when I bought it.

It might. Thats what I’m hoping to do. My console is banned so i’m not at risk, but once I’ve sorted out the process. I’ll be putting disclaimers out there. This whole process provides a huge ban risk so if you buy an emmc chip. Do so at your own risk.

I am mainly concerned with data integrity. An OS can perform 1000s of read write operations. Would rather run everything off of the EMMC to avoid burning out my SD card prematurely.

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Placeholder thread for my future guide on how to install android on an EMMC. I have acquired a 256gb EMMC chip. Its arriving soon. I will be experimenting with it and sorting out and identifying the issues that might come along. If you are interested, feel free to provide input. My end goal is...