On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Brian Piccioni <[email protected]> wrote: > Got it, thanks. > > So I'll basically plug in the FTDI, open a terminal emulator and try to boot > off my cloned image and see what she says. > > Unfortunately, I have to go through my eMMC copying routine first, and I > have to remove 6" of snow first ... > > I wasn't expecting any trouble using dd to clone the eMMC. I had done pretty > much exactly the same thing converting my Windows and Linux systems to SSDs > and it worked like a charm. I would have figured that, unless something like > the MAC address (which is unique to each platform) matters to the OS it > would work on the BBB as well.
dd is facing two issues.. hotplug (so eMMC/microSD can easily swap kernel names /dev/mmcblk0 / /dev/mmcblk1 ) and to support hotplug, we are using UUID's to access the eMMC.. (such that you can easily boot with the microSD plugged in or not..) Regards, -- Robert Nelson http://www.rcn-ee.com/ -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
