is it possible to use initrd with angstrom? I would like to boot from emmc 
with uuid. Actually when microsd is inserted the system boot from microsd 
and I would like to avoid that.

Regards

Il giorno domenica 5 gennaio 2014 23:33:02 UTC+1, Brian Piccioni ha scritto:
>
> Hello and thank you in advance for the help.
>
> I know that, in general, this topic has been addressed before. I looked 
> through all the posts, followed whatever methods, etc., were suggested but 
> I can't get it to work (it being cloning my eMMC on one BBB to another BBB).
>
> I live in rural Canada and downloading costs me $10/gb so I am cautious 
> about downloading stuff unless i have to, etc..
>
> My 'source' system is Ubuntu 13.04 (GNU/Linux 3.8.13-bone21 armv7l). 
> Initially my target was an 'out of the box' BBB. 
>
> I booted the 'source' system from an Anstrom 'bootable' microSD, mounted a 
> USB drive, in the USB directory I executed 
>
>         dd if=/dev/mmcblk1 of=BeagleBoneBlack-eMMC-image-Jan52014.img 
> bs=10M
>
> The command completed with no errors and a reassuring amount of data 
> copied (1.9gb)
>
> Then I booted the 'destination' system from an Anstrom 'bootable' microSD, 
> mounted my USB drive, and in the USB directory executed 
>
>         dd if=BeagleBoneBlack-eMMC-image-Jan52014.img of=/dev/mmcblk1 
> bs=10M
>
> Again, the command completed with no errors and a reassuring amount of 
> data copied (1.9gb)
>
>
> Unfortunately, when I boot the destination machine, nothing much happens 
> except a flashing LED. I can't SSH into the board and it doesn't even show 
> up on my network.
>
> Figuring there was something Ubuntu related I flashed the destination BBB 
> with Ubuntu 12.4, which I had around. It worked fine, however, when I 
> repeated the above procedure (including booting Angstrom off microSD) I got 
> the same result.
>
>
> I wonder if there is something wrong with my eMMC partion table on the 
> source BBB (even though it works fine). When I execute fdisk -l I get the 
> following (note the *doesn't contain a valid partition table* reports) 
>
> Disk /dev/mmcblk1: 1920 MB, 1920991232 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 233 cylinders, total 3751936 sectors
> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x00000000
>
>         Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/mmcblk1p1   *          63      144584       72261    c  W95 FAT32 
> (LBA)
> /dev/mmcblk1p2          144585     3743144     1799280   83  Linux
>
> Disk /dev/mmcblk1boot1: 1 MB, 1048576 bytes
> 4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 32 cylinders, total 2048 sectors
> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x00000000
>
> Disk /dev/mmcblk1boot1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
>
> Disk /dev/mmcblk1boot0: 1 MB, 1048576 bytes
> 4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 32 cylinders, total 2048 sectors
> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x00000000
>
> Disk /dev/mmcblk1boot0 doesn't contain a valid partition table
>
>
> I would be very grateful if somebody could tell me what I am doing wrong.
>
> Thank you
>

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