On Tuesday, January 7, 2014 9:21:49 PM UTC, Rusty Wright wrote: > > Can anyone recommend a usb drive for using to boot off of? From what I > understand the drive needs to be externally powered, not powered from usb, > and I can only find ones that are powered over usb. > > Thanks. > I started by booting the BBB from an SD Card with one of Robert Nelson's images, then moved to booting from a USB stick (by copying the file system image across and updating uEnv.txt). The stick went read-only after a few days, and I looked at a portable USB HD - I can't remember if I got it booting or not. In the end it seemed easier to fetch the kernel via TFTP and then boot via NFS - again, it was just a question of updating uEnv.txt
An NFS-loaded kernel makes cross-compling and general messing around a lot easier, it's reasonably quick, and I wouldn't develop stuff any other way. However, while setting up TFTP and NFS you _must_ monitor the BBB console (FTDI) during startup - there are too many details in the set-up to get everything right the first time. I access the BBB via ssh across the network; mostly it boots correctly just by powering it up, but one time in ten or twenty it hangs. This problem prevents unattended operation, and I haven't solved it. Will -- 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.
