Hi William, Thanks for your quick response.
I cannot really move to the debian, as it has taken me a lot of effort :) , to understand my way around angstrom.. it will be very steep curve for me as of now. I was thinking, is there no way to create a new vfat partition on bbb, and expose that on the thumbdrive, and let this default one just remain unmounted ? I will readup on the read-only part. Can you point me to some info on how/when does this partition get loaded ? do we have some sort of hook that can be utilized ? Can I not place the mlo/ig& env files at a place where its picked by bbb , but not exposed over thumbdrive ? Regards Anubhav On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 11:57 AM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote: > > *My users may accidentally delete the mlo/uboot/uenv files, if presented >> over their desktop.* >> > > There are a few ways to deal with this*. *Just do not mount the boot > loader partition. Would probably be the easiest for you. If you want to do > what I would consider "the right way", then put a modern Debian build from > Robert on it, and that whole partition will not exist, and the bootloader > files will be in a hole in the first 1M of the block device. > > Aside from that, I do not think FAT/FAT32 partitions can be used with > Linux permissions. However, you may be able to make the partition read > only. Not sure on this, but if you're teaching students about he hardware / > software. This may be preferable. > > Personally, I think "hiding" the files in the first 1M of disk space is > the best way. Heck I've been using Linux for years, and I honestly have no > idea how to reverse / mess that up. Eventually I'll have to read up on it > myself, as it's pretty neat . . . > > On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 10:58 PM, Anubhav Goel <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Hi Kenny, >> >> I have the same requirement, were you able to get any workaround to this ? >> >> I looked into bbb to find any default locations , like /boot/uEnv.txt .. >> but it doesnt work , if I delete the file from media , but the >> /boot/uenv.txt file is not picked up. >> I was unable to find any other place to store the mlo & img files either. >> >> My users may accidentally delete the mlo/uboot/uenv files, if presented >> over their desktop. >> >> Regards, >> Anubhav >> >> On Wednesday, 24 July 2013 14:23:10 UTC+5:30, [email protected] wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I am building a few prototype with Beaglebone Black. I want to let the >>> user to plug into the mini-USB port from a PC and copy a output file I >>> stored in /media/BEAGLEBONE. However, I don't want user to see all the >>> documentation and tutorial of the BBB. It seems like BBB will copy all >>> these files during reboot. >>> >>> I wonder if I can configure it without copying these files during >>> reboot? or I can configure a different directory to show up while user plug >>> in the mini-USB cable? I can control where the output file go in my >>> program. Many thanks for any guidance. >>> >>> Kenny Lau >>> >> -- >> 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. >> > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beagleboard/lqPrGitRgCk/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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.
