# NanoPi R5S - Boot from NVMe

**URL:** https://dietpi.com/forum/t/nanopi-r5s-boot-from-nvme/18064
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [8 October 2023 00:29 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/nanopi-r5s-boot-from-nvme/18064 "2023-10-08T00:29:07Z")
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### Author: ![MichaIng](https://dietpi.com/forum/user_avatar/dietpi.com/michaing/32/7_2.png) [@MichaIng](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/MichaIng)
#### Post date: [9 October 2023 19:43 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/nanopi-r5s-boot-from-nvme/18064/19 "2023-10-09T19:43:37Z")

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You are right. I was also confused by the `/dev/mmcblk2boot*` devices, on your’s and our images, but those are pointing to the `/dev/mmcblk1p2` partition, and are added by the kernel as pseudo-devices, I guess. I mixed it up with the other RK35xx SBCs indeed.

If someone is ready to possibly break bootability without manually reverting the change, I would like to see whether it can boot from eMMC with all the files in its root instead of `/boot` subdirectory. Can be tested like this:

```sh
umount /boot
mv /media/mmcboot/boot/{,.??,.[^.]}* /media/mmcboot/
rmdir /media/mmcboot/boot
umount /media/mmcboot
sed -i '/[[:blank:]]\/boot[[:blank:]]/d' /etc/fstab
sed -i 's|/media/mmcboot|/boot|' /etc/fstab
systemctl daemon-reload
mount /boot

```

So the content on the eMMC is moved from the subdirectory into its root, the old boot mount is removed, and the eMMC directly mounted to `/boot` instead. The `/etc/fstab` should then contain only:

```auto
# ...
tmpfs ... /tmp ...
UUID=... /boot ...
UUID=... / ...

```

Looks like the NanoPi R5/6 are then another case where such mini images would be handy: [USB boot | Provide tiny SD card image as USB boot relay · Issue #6186 · MichaIng/DietPi · GitHub](https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/6186)  
So even the content of `/boot` can remain on the rootfs drive and the eMMC (or SD card) contains only a tiny U-Boot to boot script which does nothing more than loading and running the boot script from the NVMe or USB drive.

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