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OpenWRT on Banana Pi BPI-R4 4GB Installation and full use of the 8GB eMMC

Note: We assume a serial connection to the router console

• download latest (stable/snapshot) image from openwrt.org https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/25.12.5/targets/mediatek/filogic/openwrt-25.12.5-mediatek-filogic-bananapi_bpi-r4-sdcard.img.gz

• put image on sd card

• insert SD card in router

• Set the dip switches to 1 1 (down, down) to boot it from sd card

• poweron

• during boot in the console select install to NAND

• poweroff

• Set the dip switches to 0 1 (up, down) to boot from NAND

• poweron

• during boot in the console select install to eMMC

• poweroff

• Set the dip switches to 1 0 (down, up) to boot from eMMC

• poweron

• on the shell prompt run

  apk update
  apk add cfdisk
  cfdisk /dev/mmcblk0
  ``` → Resize /dev/mmcblk0p5 to something like 7.2G.
  write and quit ```cfdisk```
  

• back on the shell prompt run

umount /dev/fitrw
firstboot -y
reboot

After the reboot the entire capacity of the eMMC should be accessable

https://docs.banana-pi.org/en/BPI-R4/GettingStarted_BPI-R4 <-- outdated

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The Banana Pi R4 (#BPiR4) is here! What I thought would be a weekend project ended up being a couple of hours of effort from scratch to having everything working as it was.
Running #OpenWrt, getting around 930 Mbps symmetrically with hardware acceleration.

Ordered a #BPiR4 a couple of days ago, planning to run #OpenWrt on it. It just shipped, and I'm already having second thoughts. Maybe I should've gotten something from #UniFi instead, as I already have their AP and switch. Cloud Gateway Ultra looks interesting. The further I go, the more I want things to just work, rather than tinkering with custom firmware.