On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 1:50 AM, Robert Nelson <robertcnelson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Scott M. Jones <scott@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> I have a Beagleboard XM rev B and needed a VFAT boot partition in order >>> to boot. Will these be provided for F21 and are they still needed? >> >> The VFAT images are no longer provided. It should be possible, like on >> the OMAP4/am33xx devices, to write the uboot to an offset on the root >> of the drive, there's about 2mb left free at the beginning of the ARM >> images to enable this, and get uboot to work. I've looked very briefly >> at this on my xM and started to read docs to see if there was any >> difference between the SoCs but I've not got very far as I've had >> other more pressing things. > > RAW mode wasn't introduced till the omap4's bootrom. However there > are now patches to boot the beagle/beaglexm (omap34xx/dm3730) from > extX via u-boot. But, there's not enough sram for both vfat & extX so > it's a choice you need to make. Oh interesting, so that means we can put the u-boot/MLO on a ext4 /boot partition (partition 1) and have it work? If not how does this work? Peter _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
