On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 2:47 PM, Brendan Bleker <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > I have a board that has been developed using the Beaglebone Black as a > reference design. > We are trying to figure out a way to do mass Flashing/Testing of the boards > in a production environment. > > The boards will be coming from our manufacturer with absolutely nothing on > the internal flash or EEPROM. > I'd like to devise a way to be able to plug multiple boards boards into a > jig (i.e. a USB hub), and have them flash and go through some initial test > scripts to test out the hardware functionality. > > My hope was that the board would be able to boot off of USB0 via a USB hard > drive, flash or NFS drive with the boot partition and boot files also > located on the drive. From what I've read, I understand, there is no > possible way of doing this and that a boot partition must exist on an SD > card or the on-board flash in order to boot from NFS, or USB0. > > Is my understanding correct? Are there other ways to boot the board with no > on-board flash/SD boot partition?
The bbb from CircuitCo has the same issue. On first power, a script on the microSD programs the board eeprom, then reboots. Then the kernel will find the eMMC device, then we resync the data from the microSD to the eMMC. Regards, -- Robert Nelson http://www.rcn-ee.com/ -- 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/d/optout.
