Re: install to 4GB eMMC on the Rev C Beaglebone Black?

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This is the standard F-20 release, with its standard uboot.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/F20/Installation#For_the_BeagleBone_Black

Sounds like F-21 improves this? Sounds good.


Thanks,

Adam


On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 6:18 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 5:11 AM, Adam Goode <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks. I got it working via an mSD card, then transferring over.
>
> The one wrinkle is that I needed to edit a-b-c.d/19-config-adds to add 1:3
> 1:2 1:1 to u_devpart to get the thing booting. Maybe this is a worthwhile
> change to make to a-b-c?

What Fedora and uboot release? With extlinux.conf support that
shouldn't matter I don't believe.

Peter

> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 6:30 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Adam,
>>
>> > The instructions for Fedora for BBB all suggest to install to an SD
>> > card. Is
>> > it possible to install to the eMMC and not need an SD card? Any ideas?
>>
>> There's two possible ways of doing this.
>>
>> The first is to use a SD card like the standard instructions to get a
>> system running not off the eMMC but have a copy of the image on the sd
>> card and basically repeat it over onto the MMC, remove the sd card and
>> reboot. I've done that with the 2gb model but it's not ideal as you do
>> need an initial mSD card.
>>
>> The second way, which is untested but on my list of to look at (I was
>> actually investigating the uboot side of things over the weekend) is
>> to use the USB DFU functionality of the usb-otg port. AFAICT all the
>> bits are there on the uboot side, and there's dfu-util package but the
>> documentation I've managed to find is, at best, poor and I've not had
>> time to play and work out all the bits, like how to update the uboot
>> too.
>>
>> Peter
>
>

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