Thank you very, very much. All good now, could not reply earlier because I 
have been "booting" myself after I figured out what I did wrong.  :-)

Both the messed up uEnv.txt file and the copy were there so I just had to 
delete the bad uEnv.txt file and copy the back up I had made.

The file is now also copied to my PC...just in case....


On Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at 2:50:02 AM UTC+11, Graham wrote:
>
> Several Possibilities:
>
> 1.) When you write something to the file system, either a new file or 
> modify a file, you need to
> type 'sync' on the command line to flush the buffers to the file system, 
> otherwise you can
> loose the changes at unmount/shutdown.
>
> 2.) On the earlier Debian distributions, like 7.5, the uEnv.txt file is 
> not in the 'root' partition, but is in 
> the 'boot' partition, which is what I suspect is going on. 
>
> "mount /dev/mmcblk1p2 disk" will mount the 'root' partition
> "mount /dev/mmcblk1p1 disk" will mount the 'boot' partition  (or something 
> like that, I'm working from memory)
>
> Since you can't mount two different partitions with the same name, if you 
> try to
> mount them at the same time, you will need to call them something 
> different, like disk1 and disk2 or
> disk_root and disk_boot.
>
> --- Graham
>
> ==
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 3:28 AM, JS-BBB <[email protected] <javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>> First of all apologies to the OP for crashing his thread :-) but it seems 
>> to be the same issue.
>>
>> I have "initrd.img-3.8.13-bone47" (Debian) on the EMMC which becomes 
>> visible after the above instructions, the disk directory is still on the SD 
>> so I only need the "mount /dev/mmcblk1p2 disk" bit to access it and I can 
>> see other stuff I had put in my own directory for test purposes 
>> (bonescripts).
>>
>> However I can't see the original uEnv.txt file or the backup copy I had 
>> made before the fatal bricking, is it possible they are hiding elsewhere 
>> but boot or uboot directories of the EMCC? Copying the uEnv.txt from the SD 
>> to the boot directory of the EMCC doesn't restore functionality but it is 
>> possible that that files needs to be different than what's on the SD??
>>
>> I have only started to mess around with the BBB and very lost!
>>
>> On Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at 9:34:27 AM UTC+11, Graham wrote:
>>>
>>> Well these instructions are for the later "single partition" Debian 
>>> distributions.
>>> The 7.5, distribution has the uEnv.txt file in a separate "FAT" 
>>> partition, so
>>> the mounting instructions are slightly different, if you need to get at 
>>> the 
>>> file in a different partition.
>>>
>>> --- Graham
>>>
>>> ==
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 2:58 PM, JS-BBB <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks Graham, that helped me too. Somehow the uEnv.txt file seemed to 
>>>> have disappeared completely from the EMCC. I can still see other stuff I 
>>>> put there but not that file.
>>>>
>>>> On Monday, February 9, 2015 at 6:17:12 AM UTC+11, [email protected] 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I accidently modified uEnv.txt file located in eMMC of my Beaglebone 
>>>>> black. Now the board is not booting. I can not even see BBB for serial 
>>>>> connection from terra term (Windows 7 after drivers are installed). How 
>>>>> can 
>>>>> I get access to the board? If I can just access to uboot I could reflash 
>>>>> or 
>>>>> run it using nfs. Any ideas?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>

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