# Rock Pi S eMMC support?
**URL:** https://dietpi.com/forum/t/rock-pi-s-emmc-support/13287
**Category:** Troubleshooting
**Created:** [30 May 2022 12:14 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/rock-pi-s-emmc-support/13287 "2022-05-30T12:14:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@wantedori](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/wantedori)
#### Post date: [30 May 2022 12:14 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/rock-pi-s-emmc-support/13287/1 "2022-05-30T12:14:26Z")
TLDR: Is there a support for booting from eMMC on Rock Pi S?
Hi, I recently got myself a Rock PI S with onboard Emmc which I am planning on using in a lot of projects. The Diet Pi OS worked perfectly from SD but since I want to deploy it without using SD, I wanted to use the emmc. The official images (Debian, Ubuntu) are huge, so I dont want to use them, but they, after flashing to emmc, booted well. Unlike diet pi and armbian. Is anyone using diet pi on onboard emmc?
Thanks in advance.
Edit: using probably the newest bootloader from official website: [RockpiS/dev/sdnand-install - Radxa Wiki](https://wiki.radxa.com/RockpiS/dev/sdnand-install)
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### Author:  [@MichaIng](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/MichaIng)
#### Post date: [30 May 2022 15:53 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/rock-pi-s-emmc-support/13287/2 "2022-05-30T15:53:31Z")
Nasty, I just migrated our image from using the old Radxa kernel/bootloader to using the new Armbian one, but looks like there are move caveats than missing Bluetooth support. I’ll have a look into the Armbian forum and give you instructions about how to upgrade to “edge” kernel when I’m back home.
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### Author:  [@jiri](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/jiri)
#### Post date: [5 March 2023 16:52 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/rock-pi-s-emmc-support/13287/3 "2023-03-05T16:52:15Z")
Hello. Anything new at this? 🙂 I am not able to boot Diet Pi from NAND unfortunately … ☹
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### Author:  [@diego117](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/diego117)
#### Post date: [16 May 2023 12:56 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/rock-pi-s-emmc-support/13287/4 "2023-05-16T12:56:57Z")
I agree, would be great to be able to use the NAND on Rock Pi S.
when flashing dietpi using [these instructions](https://wiki.radxa.com/RockpiS/dev/sdnand-install#install_from_windows), but the dietpi image (DietPi\_ROCKPiS-ARMv8-Bullseye.img), the boot fails with:
```auto
...
[3.268183] rk_gmac-dwmac ff4e0000.ethernet: TX Checksum insertion supported
[3.269002] rk_gmac-dwmac ff4e0000.ethernet: Wake-Up On Lan supported
[3.269780] rk_gmac-dwmac ff4e0000.ethernet: Normal descriptors
[3.270317] rk_gmac-dwmac ff4e0000.ethernet: Ring mode enabled
[3.270839] rk_gmac-dwmac ff4e0000.ethernet: Enable RX Mitigation via HW Watchdog Timer
[3.445504] RTL8201F Fast Ethernet stmmac-0:00: attached PHY driver (mii_bus:phy_addr=stmmac-0:00, irq=POLL)
[3.446414] RTL8201F Fast Ethernet stmmac-0:01: attached PHY driver (mii_bus:phy_addr=stmmac-0:01, irq=POLL)
Begin: Loading essential drivers ... done.
Begin: Running /scripts/init-premount ... done.
Begin: Mounting root file system ... Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ... done.
Begin: Running /scripts/local-premount ... done.
Begin: Waiting for root file system ... Begin: Running /scripts/local-block ... done.
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done.
Gave up waiting for root file system device. Common problems:
- Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
- Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?)
- Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)
ALERT! UUID=098e0736-a567-4bf9-b6a1-b8a7dfe58cfb does not exist. Dropping to a shell!
(initramfs)
```
@MichaIng let me know if I can provide any more information that would be helpful to you. I am happy to help but I would not know where to start debugging this myself 😕
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### Author:  [@StephanStS](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/StephanStS)
#### Post date: [16 May 2023 17:43 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/rock-pi-s-emmc-support/13287/5 "2023-05-16T17:43:54Z")
Does this blog post help?
> **[Moving a running DietPi system to a USB stick/disk or an onboard eMMC –...](https://dietpi.com/blog/?p=1236)**
>
> The Raspberry Pi family typically boots from an SD card plugged to the system. To avoid SD card lifetime issues, these systems can run from an connected USB res
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### Author:  [@diego117](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/diego117)
#### Post date: [17 May 2023 08:51 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/rock-pi-s-emmc-support/13287/6 "2023-05-17T08:51:57Z")
Thanks for the tip, unfortunately I tried that already and failed 😕
I think the issue is, that DietPi does not recognise the nand flash.
The tutorial fails in the first step…
the only drive recognized by `lsblk` is the sd-card:
```auto
dietpi@mew:~$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
mmcblk0 179:0 0 14.6G 0 disk
└─mmcblk0p1 179:1 0 14.5G 0 part /
```
I think the nand flash is missing.
```auto
dietpi@mew:~$ ls /dev
autofs kmsg pts tty20 tty41 tty62 vcs6
block kvm random tty21 tty42 tty63 vcsa
btrfs-control log rfkill tty22 tty43 tty7 vcsa1
bus loop-control shm tty23 tty44 tty8 vcsa2
char loop0 snapshot tty24 tty45 tty9 vcsa3
console loop1 snd tty25 tty46 ttyS0 vcsa4
cpu_dma_latency loop2 stderr tty26 tty47 ttyS1 vcsa5
cuse loop3 stdin tty27 tty48 ttyS2 vcsa6
disk loop4 stdout tty28 tty49 ttyS3 vcsu
ecryptfs loop5 tty tty29 tty5 ttyS4 vcsu1
fd loop6 tty0 tty3 tty50 ttyS5 vcsu2
full loop7 tty1 tty30 tty51 ttyS6 vcsu3
fuse mapper tty10 tty31 tty52 ttyS7 vcsu4
gpiochip0 mem tty11 tty32 tty53 uhid vcsu5
gpiochip1 mmcblk0 tty12 tty33 tty54 uinput vcsu6
gpiochip2 mmcblk0p1 tty13 tty34 tty55 uleds vfio
gpiochip3 mqueue tty14 tty35 tty56 urandom vga_arbiter
gpiochip4 net tty15 tty36 tty57 vcs vhci
hugepages null tty16 tty37 tty58 vcs1 vhost-net
i2c-1 port tty17 tty38 tty59 vcs2 zero
iio:device0 ppp tty18 tty39 tty6 vcs3
initctl psaux tty19 tty4 tty60 vcs4
input ptmx tty2 tty40 tty61 vcs5
```
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### Author:  [@MichaIng](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/MichaIng)
#### Post date: [17 May 2023 17:57 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/rock-pi-s-emmc-support/13287/7 "2023-05-17T17:57:44Z")
Please try with edge kernel and see whether the NAND flash is detected then:
```sh
apt install linux-{image,dtb}-current-rockchip64
reboot
```
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### Author:  [@diego117](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/diego117)
#### Post date: [17 May 2023 19:47 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/rock-pi-s-emmc-support/13287/8 "2023-05-17T19:47:33Z")
thank you @MichaIng😃
after running
```auto
apt install linux-{image,dtb}-edge-rockchip64
reboot
```
I get:
```auto
dietpi@mew:~$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
mmcblk2 179:0 0 14.6G 0 disk
└─mmcblk2p1 179:1 0 14.5G 0 part /
mmcblk1 179:32 0 964M 0 disk
```
so I guess time will solve this issue… as soon as the armbian current kernel and the dietpi gets updated it should work right?!
btw.:
the current dietpi kernel not recognizing nand flash is: 5.15.93-rockchip64
the edge kernel that worked is: 6.1.11-rockchip64
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### Author:  [@MichaIng](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/MichaIng)
#### Post date: [17 May 2023 20:43 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/rock-pi-s-emmc-support/13287/9 "2023-05-17T20:43:16Z")
> [@diego117](#):
>
> as soon as the armbian current kernel and the dietpi gets updated it should work right?!
Yes exactly. I hope that rockchip64 current moves to v6.1 soon for several other reasons. On ROCK Pi S in particular, it also adds support for overclocking, lower voltage, CPUfreq and/or CPU temperature. I think it was CPUfreq: With current 5.15, the clocks stay at 1.4 GHz all the time, right? (`cpu` command)
With 6.1 there is proper frequency scaling.
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### Author:  [@hatonthecat](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/hatonthecat)
#### Post date: [21 October 2023 17:14 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/rock-pi-s-emmc-support/13287/10 "2023-10-21T17:14:54Z")
I was able to boot 8.22.3 from SD (using the older RK3308 board, 256MB w/o NAND).