On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 7:14 AM, Vesa Jääskeläinen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 04/09/14 21:24, Robert Nelson wrote:
>>
>> Howdy!
>>
>> I just pushed out another round of images for testing.
>>
>> There's really only "one" big change with this image, the sorta change
>> that will re-write every wiki document.
>>
>> NO VFAT PARTITION REQUIRED!!!
>>
>> Let me repeat that... THE VFAT "boot" PARTITION IS NOT REQUIRED! ;)
>>
>> So far i've only got it to reliabley work on omap4+ bootroms (which
>> include the am335x).. so beagle/beagle-xm, not yet...
>>
> MBR/GPT's MBR emu is at the first sectors of the card. So are you using
> relocateable MBR/GPT? Or how are you handling that issue?

Traditionally it's been a msdos partition setup... Either way, the
first file MLO gets stored at 128k

> Would it be wise to also support backup boot loader in case first one gets
> corrupt? -- if I recon correctly the bootrom should also support that.

We never had a backup boot loader previously.. It was just stored in
the "fat" partition as a file and was also shared over usb as a
"gadget usb flash drive".

So, we are offering more protection, as windows user's can't randomly delete it.

Regards,

-- 
Robert Nelson
http://www.rcn-ee.com/

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