Installation to eMMC with ceemmc tool and booting other OS

[iSlaker]

@vpeter

I did Android reinstall from SD card few times and it always worked fine. With CE installed on emmc.

@vpeter: So did I. This is not my first box.

At this point I don’t even care about Armbian anymore. And every time I type its name I feel like I’m calling Voldemort or something. All I want is to be able to restore the stock firmware. That’s all.

Would this box still have a Recovery menu/mode? If so, how can I access it? The box is an X96 Max Plus with S905X3.

@Shoog

I suspect that the Armbian system has overwritten the standard bootloader and this is what got copied over to the emmc when ceemmc was run. The reason that it won’t boot from the SD is because the Armbian bootloader which is now on emmc is telling the system to only boot from emmc.

@Shoog: So you’re saying that all those times I ran the shall-not-be-named OS off of an SD card it was affecting the bootloader? Even though I’d take it out, put the one with CoreELEC back in, or boot into the stock firmware just fine? How’s that possible?