Is it possible to install to eMMC drive?

Hello,

My computer has an eMMC internal drive. Is it possible to install FreeBSD to it? If not are there any other forks of BSD that enable this?
 
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I would simply boot up off the installer and use the shell and check that eMMC is recognized with gpart show. If so just install to it, with no swap.

I have an Arm platform, the Beaglebone which has a bootable eMMC. I like it.

What is your machine?
 
My computer is an x84-64 (amd64). I tried to install FreeBSD on it, but the internal eMMC drive did not show up as a drive to which it could be installed.
 
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Not looking good unless you can hack on drivers. Maybe do a mailing list post to see if there may be loader hints needed.
Maybe do a dmesg output for people to look at.

A little more specific on the hardware as well. Is this an embedded box or a laptop.
On embedded boxes they seem to ride the emmc on the sd card bus.
 
Yes, I had seen that thread but I'm not sure I believe Al Poole!

Edit: Well it may be that Braswell is supported. My Intel Compute Stick is Bay Trail
 
Yes but Al Poole was saying OpenBSD supports eMMC, in response to poster trying to write an eMMC driver, who was searching for guidance.
Many NetBSD/OpenBSD drivers are shared/ported to FreeBSD.
 
Ah, hah! I didn't notice that he was referring to OpenBSD rather than FreeBSD. I tried OpenBSD but the strangest thing, it shuts off my USB hub during the boot process of the installer. I can't do it without the hub because my Intel Compute Stick has only one USB port.
 
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Ah, hah! I didn't notice that he was referring to openBSD rather than freeBSD. I tried openBSD but the strangest thing, it shuts off my USB hub during the boot process of the installer. I can't do it without the hub because my Intel Compute Stick has only one USB port.
I think this is expected. I am quite sure I saw the post on tech@openbsd or misc@openbsd which explains why the OpenBSD behaves that way. IIRC it has to do with some magic numbers required by the device.
 
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