I probably only understand a tiny part of what you wrote. I will post the result of the experiment tomorrow.
Thanks again for the help and your patients Brian On Monday, January 6, 2014 9:22:16 PM UTC-5, RobertCNelson wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Brian Piccioni > <[email protected]<javascript:>> > 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.
