On Monday, May 18, 2015 at 8:40:03 PM UTC-7, William Hermans wrote: > I can still put the full version on Debian on an SD and load from that right? > > Yes. But you would use one of the standalone images, instead of a flasher > image. > > I just don't really want to have two different versions of doing things > for two boards, but kind of too late for that. I recall reading that the > default behavior at boot-up is now to boot off an SD if it is present, > is that correct? Or is it configurable? > > > > The default behavior as I understand it is that the board will load the > first, a stage bootloader ( MLO ) off of the eMMC. *Unless* you press the > boot switch button, where then it would load the first stage bootloader from > the sdcard. > > > In either above case, the board would then attempt to boot off the sdcard. > Starting with u-boot, and finally booting Linux. This is why some have issues > with trying to boot a newer image off of sdcard, when they're using an older > BBB. The first stage bootloader on the eMMC is too old. > >
> Anyway, with all that said. Yes, you can configure this behavior somewhat > through uEnv.txt. You'll still load the first stage bootloader off the eMMC, > but depending on how key variables are set in uEnv.txt, you can > "automagically" load files. and / or linux images choosing your specific boot > medium. > > > Now, we're straying off onto a topic that is fairly large. A topic that I > spent nearly 2 weeks reading about before I could even think of a question to > ask. I would suggest if you need to know more that you search the web for > anything / everything u-boot, MLO ( and perhaps even x-loader ) in regards to > the beaglebone black. > > Thanks William, You stopped I think at just the right time...even if you tried to go further my head would probably explode right now. I will take the long course as you suggest and build that knowledge up at the logical rate. I will work on my BB-View issues now and count myself lucky so far. Again, thanks for your timely and thorough help! You and Robert. Regards, Jack -- 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.
