Thanks for the heads up - fortunately, the board I have is 'switchable'. One interesting note, however, is that the board pinout is 180 degrees relative to the BBB and it won't fit the 'right way' Again, fortunately, I had some stackable headers from an Arduino protoboard so I could make it work.
I am now going to post the results ... On Tuesday, January 7, 2014 4:32:41 AM UTC-5, William Hermans wrote: > > > https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-3oca40vrH-g/Ubd5TjD-0_I/AAAAAAAAALU/-GibZBaTvKk/s1024/beaglebone-black-serial.jpg > > thats what you have. vcc has nothing to do with it. RXD/TXD do . . . > > Yes on the serial.conf file and uEnv.txt should have a ... > > console=ttyO0,115200n8 > > Line in it. Which i bet it does already. > > > > > > > On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Brian Piccioni <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> 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]> >>> 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] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- 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.
