how can you mark the uSD as bootable? On Monday, May 13, 2013 at 1:25:29 PM UTC-5, RobertCNelson wrote: > > On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Robert P. J. Day <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > On Mon, 13 May 2013, Robert Nelson wrote: > > > >> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Robert P. J. Day < > [email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > >> > On Mon, 13 May 2013, Gerald Coley wrote: > >> > > >> >> Basically. But if the fingers can't handle repeatedly holding the > >> >> button every time they boot, all they have to do is rename the MLO > >> >> file to something like MMM. > >> > > >> > and that's the fundamental test, is it? the existence of a file > >> > called "MLO" in the eMMC FAT partition? i thought as much, just > wanted > >> > to be sure. > >> > >> You could also toggle the 'boot flag' on the eMMC.. Then it'll default > >> to microSD over eMMC.. > >> > >> fdisk ${DISK} <<-__EOF__ > >> a > >> 1 > >> w > >> __EOF__ > > > > ah, that's handy to know -- if the boot process does not find a > > bootable partition in eMMC, it *automatically* switches to boot from > > uSD? > > Correct.. uSD is search after eMMC, so if eMMC fails, uSD is next... > > > does the uSD FAT partition need to be marked bootable? > > Yeap it does, otherwise it'll fail too.. ;) > > Regards, > > -- > Robert Nelson > http://www.rcn-ee.com/ >
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