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:
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> thats what you have. vcc has nothing to do with it. RXD/TXD do . . . 
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> Yes on the serial.conf file and uEnv.txt should have a ...
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> Line in it. Which i bet it does already.
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> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Brian Piccioni <[email protected]<javascript:>
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>> I probably only understand a tiny part of what you wrote. I will post the 
>> result of the experiment tomorrow.
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>> Thanks again for the help and your patients
>>
>> Brian
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>> On Monday, January 6, 2014 9:22:16 PM UTC-5, RobertCNelson wrote:
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>>> 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/ 
>>>
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