Oops, sorry I missed the part about doing the fstab mangling on the eMMC.

Sounds to me like the easiest is your option 2; boot to a bootable SD card.


On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 12:39:21 PM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote:
>
> No, Rusty,
>
> that would have been simple. But - as I said - I modified the fstab in the 
> eMMC root file system, which is the onboard one.
> And, the SD card is partitioned - and formatted - quite well: I remotely 
> copied source to it, compiled & linked it, ran it. Wrote a few Megs of text 
> files onto it, everything very okay.
>
> The point is: my fstab entry accords to `man mount' and `man fstab', which 
> I consulted on a common Linux/GNU PC. On the BBB, the installed GNU systems 
> seems to fall over this entry, it - maybe - doesn't understand the 'Label' 
> directive - dunno.
> I suspect, there's that busybox cripple in the game - could someone please 
> do a
> > ls -l `which mount`
> on the Bone and post the output here ? If this results in something like 
> '/bin/busybox' the next bug report is on its way ....
>
> TIA
> .M
>
> On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 8:33:11 PM UTC+1, Rusty Wright wrote:
>>
>> If you didn't change anything on the onboard flash you should be able to 
>> pull the SD card
>> and boot to the onboard flash.  Then you can insert the flash and mount 
>> it and work on
>> the fstab file.  The flash card is /dev/mmcblk0p1.
>>
>> But your partitioning of the SD card doesn't sound right to me.  I'm 
>> using this procedure
>> for my SD card:
>>
>> http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardDebian
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 6:46:30 AM UTC-8, [email protected]:
>>>
>>> New to BBB/Angstrom, but not to Linux, in my last step before 
>>> catastrophy I added an fstab entry to the eMMC root file system which made 
>>> the gadget inoperable - partially, at least.
>>> What I did is
>>>
>>>    1. partitioned and formatted an SD as Linux/ext3, with one single 
>>>    partition, and a name like 'BBone'
>>>    2. added a proper uEnv.txt to the SD root
>>>    3. attached it and booted. Everything okay so far. Transferred some 
>>>    code to the SD, compiled it and ran the stuff - worked.
>>>    4. added a mount entry to the fstab, looking like 'LABEL=BBone /opt 
>>>    ext3 <defaults, maybe> 0 2'. (Sorry I don't remember the exact entry 
>>>    contents)
>>>    5. rebooted, and cried loud: the bone OS didn't start up its USB-IP 
>>>    stack, so I couldn't access it via TCP/IP any more, neither it did some 
>>>    DHCP request on the ethernet interface. It just does its well-known 
>>>    heartbeat pattern with the USRx-LED, so it is running in a certain way.
>>>
>>> It's off-line. My question, now, is how to get it connected again on the 
>>> shortest way. For me there are a few possibilities:
>>>
>>>    1. Buy and attach UI-devices (screen, keyboard, etc) and do the fix 
>>>    via :0
>>>    2. Install an OS to the SD, boot from there and fix the eMMC fstab
>>>    3. Connect to the serial debug line - dunno what expects me there, 
>>>    but:complicated, as there are 3.3V levels AFAIK
>>>
>>> Any recommendation and/or information very appreciated
>>>
>>> Max
>>>
>>>

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