On Saturday, January 3, 2015 7:13:33 PM UTC-8, RobertCNelson wrote: > > > On Jan 3, 2015 9:09 PM, "Robert Nelson" <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > > > > On Jan 3, 2015 8:39 PM, "David Griffith" <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > > > > > In the process of getting my BBB working with an EW-7811Un wifi > adapter, I was told that 3.8 kernels have a problem with the Realtek > driver. I was told to use at least 3.14 and build an image from here: > http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardDebian. Doing that caused U-Boot to > complain with "** Invalid partition 2 **" and then dump me back to the > U-Boot prompt. Googling on this led me to this: > https://github.com/RobertCNelson/netinstall/issues/32. The suggested fix > is to boot something from > http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu#BeagleBone.2FBeagleBone_Black and > then do "sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mmcblk1" and try again. Now when I > boot the BBB without an SD card, I get the letter 'C' repeated every half a > second. Did I just blow away the MMC bootloader? Why would blowing away > the MMC bootloader cause that "Invalid partition 2" message? > > > > That command erased the emmc, which had an old bootloader installed. > > > > By default the emmc is loaded first, which tried to load the microSD. > Which has a newer forward looking boot setup. Thus the old bootloader got > confused. > > > > There is a compatibility flag for 'setup_sdcard.sh' to deal with the old > bootloader if you use it. For the 'netinstall' it's a more pain in the ass, > so I just require it. > > --bbb-old-bootloader-in-emmc > > Regards, >
Is there a "new bootloader" somewhere out there with which I can replace the old bootloader? -- 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.
