I've ordered the BeagleBone Black and am looking forward to getting it in 
on Friday. I've been drinking from the firehose of the manual and 
schematics in the meantime.
 
Regarding the connection of the HDMI interface during power-on in 
"stand-alone" configuration; there is a big red note in section 3.4.2 
Step #1 of the System Reference Manual. It says, "*NOTE: Do not plug in the 
cable to the board until after the board is powered up*." Then in steps 
#5-7, I do the following:
 
#5: Connect 5V power
#6: Connect HDMI device
#7: Wait for boot to complete
 
Questions:
 
(a) Do I need to plan to physically disconnect HDMI device every time I 
power the BeagleBone Black OFF and the reconnect after each time I power ON 
again using 5V jack power?
 
(b) Does the answer to (a) also apply when I use the power button instead 
of the 5V DC power input?
 
(c) Why is this highlighted in red? What is the possible negative 
consequence if I fail to do this? It seems like the HDMI interface on the 
BeagleBone Black (schematic page 10) is all outputs. So I'm guessing maybe 
the HDMI device just gets confused... or is there an issue of possible 
damage to the BeagleBone or to the HDMI device?

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