Paul,
If I'm not mistaken, emmc has priority over the sd card during normal boot.


On Friday, April 17, 2015 at 3:03:17 PM UTC-7, Paul Larson wrote:
>
> I'm trying to do automated testing of some new images on BBB. The current 
> solution I'm looking at is to keep a stable image on the emmc (default 
> debian image at the moment, but I'm not *too* picky here), and use it to 
> flash the new image on the sd card, then trigger a reboot into the new 
> image. I cannot assume at any time that the new image I'm flashing to the 
> sd works well, or even boots at all, so I need a way to get back to the 
> image on the emmc.
>
> Fortunately, I've got pretty good access to network controllable relays 
> and power. So I can automate the process of powering off the device, 
> instrument the s2 button with a relay, and even check in uboot that s2 is 
> pressed and force booting to the sd card.  The problem I'm having is that 
> for some reason, even when I boot without pressing s2, it winds up booting 
> the image that's on the sd card - I suspect maybe because it finds a 
> uEnv.txt there when searching the mmc?  I've also noticed that I cannot 
> saveenv when I boot from the emmc and get into uboot there, but I can when 
> I boot with s2 held and boot into the uboot from my image on the sdcard. If 
> I set things in the environment and save them from there though, they don't 
> show up in printenv when I boot off the emmc.
>
> So that was a bit of a mouth full... if I were to distill it down to a 
> single question - is there a something I can do to the debian or ubuntu 
> image running off the emmc to ensure that when s2 is *not* pressed, it will 
> boot the image on the emmc regardless of what's on the sd card?
>
> Thanks,
> Paul Larson
>

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