I’ve acquired one of these cards and have learnt that:
My EMMC to Micro SD converter wont work with it. It only works with V0.4.
I have to buy a ODROID USB3.0 eMMC Module Reader / Writer [77748] if I want to use etcher with it
The Petitboot option for installing to this EMMC version doesn’t work for it.
Before I spend on option 2, could someone tell me if CoreELEC will run on this version of EMMC. I’ve looked in lots of places and can’t seem to find an answer.
Thanks for your reply @Betatester. Yes, I’d referred to this before posting. I’d tried to do the USD and SSH install but it wouldn’t work when I had the 128gb v0.5 EMMC card in. There was no option in Petitboot to boot the CoreELEC from the SD card. If I powered down and replaced the card with a 16GB v0.4 EMMC then I did get the option.
I’m asking the community here to see if anyone has CoreELEC running from EMMC on a V0.5 EMMC. If so, I’ll happily buy one of the readers I described in 2 in my original post.
Well, I have 2 “small” eMMC cards, (only 16GB), one is v0.4 and other v0.5. They both work perfectly and I flash them both via USB3.0 to eMMC adapter (Rev 0.1). Haven’t seen any different behaviour from either. Cannot guaranty that it will also work with an 128GB though…
ps. I would still recommend the USB 3.0 eMMC writer since it is handy to have, however the above should allow you to get CoreELEC installed the way you want, and you can wait on getting an eMMC writer until the next time you are ordering something else from Hardkernel.
Thanks to all and especially @cdu13a. The instructions worked like a charm and I was able to flash CoreELEC over the Home Assistant that was installed.
The USB3 EMMC writers are expensive if bought alone, so I’m very grateful for the steer.