> Maybe we can become free from SD cards in the near future for BBB development.
Doesn't uboot support network boot already? On Thursday, February 27, 2014 11:29:23 PM UTC-8, jhg...@gmail.com wrote: > > Robert, > > Have you resolved any of these mysteries in the mean time? > > I got into this by trying to "bitbake" a simpler image, such as > console-image, since I need no graphics or fancy webserver with node.js > foo. So far I have failed to boot from the SD card with anything which has > been made by the oebb.sh script or bitbake build system. Even Derek's > 2-year-old > instructions<http://derekmolloy.ie/building-angstrom-for-beaglebone-from-source/>seem > not to work for "console-image". > > After I succeed at booting the BBB with my own custom image, I plan on > updating u-boot to allow "fastboot", an feature more commonly supported by > Android which allows one to boot or flash over USB, ethernet, etc. Maybe we > can become free from SD cards in the near future for BBB development. > > Cheers, > Joe > > On Friday, July 12, 2013 8:30:29 AM UTC-4, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> >> On Fri, 12 Jul 2013, Chris Morgan wrote: >> >> > On Friday, July 12, 2013, Koen Kooi wrote: >> > >> > Op 12 jul. 2013, om 13:46 heeft Robert P. J. Day < >> rpj...@crashcourse.ca> het >> > volgende geschreven: >> > >> > > On Fri, 12 Jul 2013, Koen Kooi wrote: >> > > >> > >> It's all in the SRM, but for people too lazy to read that: >> > >> >> > >> � � �Read >> http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/building-angstrom and follow the >> > steps outlined there. >> > > >> > > �gaaaaaah ... i am not interested in the general philosophy >> of how to >> > > build angstrom, that's *not* the question on the table. the >> question >> > > is, which *particular* configuration of angstrom is the one >> that >> > > matches what is currently shipping on the BBB? >> > >> > The one I linked above. There is only one configuration of >> angstrom per release and >> > the above matches the release that ships with the bones. >> > >> > >> > Hello. >> > >> > I followed those instructions and, although I had selected the yocto >> > 2013 release, I ended up with the component files in the deploy/ >> > directory but as rootfs and ubi files, not card images. >> > >> > The information yesterday about the emmc-prepare.sh and other >> > scripts has helped informationaly, I think I'll be able to build a >> > sd card image today using those steps, but at this point it seems >> > like a multi step process after following the angstrom build steps. >> >> actually, that's what i would have expected ... the primary purpose >> of OE/yocto is to build the fundamental images or objects, not so much >> to create the final bootable SD card image based on them, since some >> people might not want an SD card, they might be, say, trying to >> populate a TFTP or NFS server with those images. >> >> rday >> >> -- >> >> ======================================================================== >> Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA >> http://crashcourse.ca >> >> Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday >> LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday >> ======================================================================== > > -- 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 beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
