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Previous thread was closed today...

Time for new thread.

I like NanoPi R6S with OpenWRT.
I use it for over 1 year now. First with FriendlyWRT and for some time with OpenWRT.

Nothing is perfect...

There is one and I think serious and well known problem related to R6S and OpenWRT.

When OpenWRT is installed on eMMC then R6S will ignore microSD slot during boot.

Some people suggested to erase eMMC and install OpenWRT on microSD card.

I followed this idea to avoid problems in the future. Also in case of emergency have easier way to fix it.

First I used OpenWRT GUI to flash FriendlyElec. This restored the option to boot from MicroSD card.

Then I used Armbian to erase eMMC. Then flashed OpenWRT 24.10.1 to MicroSD card.
Kingston Industrial Grade MicroSD card 16GB.

Then after first start of OpenWRT I turned off R6S removed card... then connected it to PC with Linux and expanded user partition from 100MB to 14.5GB.

Then plugged card again to R6S and turned it on.

Now I feel more comfortable in case something bad will happen.

But... the pain is that nice 32GB eMMC internal drive is empty.

Does anyone knows that OpenWRT developers are aware of the problem... ???

Is there a plan to fix it in the future... ???

I'm just curious what we can expect in the future.

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