From:  William Hermans <[email protected]>
Reply-To:  "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date:  Sunday, September 7, 2014 at 10:00 PM
To:  "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject:  Re: [beagleboard] debian testing: 2014-09-03 (goodbye vfat
release)

> ##enable BBB: eMMC Flasher:
> ##make sure, these tools are installed: dosfstools rsync
> #cmdline=init=/opt/scripts/tools/eMMC/init-eMMC-flasher-v2.sh
> 
> I suppose this will need to be changed. The tools needed ( now just "tool" as
> in singular ), and the actual script file.
> 
> I wonder how many people out there realize how powerful this is in combination
> with  TFTP / NFS . . .
> 
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 12:21 PM, John Syn <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> From:  William Hermans <[email protected]>
>> Reply-To:  "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>> Date:  Friday, September 5, 2014 at 12:19 PM
>> To:  "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>> Subject:  Re: [beagleboard] debian testing: 2014-09-03 (goodbye vfat release)
>> 
>>>> So, we are offering more protection, as windows user's can't randomly
>>>> delete it.
>>> 
>>> That should read "clueless users", since I'm a windows user myself and have
>>> never had that problem :P
>> All windows users are clueless ;-)
Oh, so this is why you were to pissed at me. It was a joke. You set it up
and I couldn¹t resist ;-)

I¹m not purposefully mean or demeaning so please don¹t take this the wrong
way. It was just meant as a little light hearted humor.

Regards,
John
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Robert Nelson <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>> 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,
>>>> 
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>>>> http://www.rcn-ee.com/
>>>> 
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