That makes sense, and is definitely what you would want if you are starting from scratch.
Just figured I'd pass along that I did 1700 power cycles last night and no failures occurred! Thanks again for the help, Chris On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 6:08 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote: > *The only reason i clear out the mbr in the directions, is just to help* >> * guarantee the user doesn't run into random* >> * complaints/warnings/annoyances in later "mkfs.ext4" tools. ;)* >> >> * and it helps make sure they have a good state of the microSD...* >> > > I'd also like to add that occasionally, and potentially semi, but not > completely related. Sometimes you get an error message at boot instructing > the user to to run fsck. I've found that simply running fsck when it asks > does away with this "boot complaint" afterwords. i.e. the Problem has been > fixed. Usually, this only happens after one does something like re-sizing > the partition using fdisk when the disk is live. It does work, but the > system temporarily gets confused by the existing partition table, until > after fsck is run. > > On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 2:41 PM, Robert Nelson <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Christopher Stack <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Don't worry I had already made a backup img so continually messing >> things up >> > wasn't really an issue. Just takes a few minutes to download the img >> back to >> > the sd. >> > >> > It is similar to what is on both Robert's and your blogs, so I'm not >> sure >> > why it got messed up when I tried recreating the partition table as >> well. >> > >> > Regardless: >> > >> > I skipped this step: Erase partition table/labels on microSD card and it >> > appeared the base uboot directly from Roberts guide worked properly. >> Then I >> > added the patch from here >> > http://www.mikini.dk/index.php/category/beaglebone-black/boot-issue and >> > repeated the procedure. On power up while holding 'a' on the keyboard >> the >> > boot process continued as desired. So knock on wood I think I got the >> > bootloader replaced and the new patch worked. >> > >> > Thank you both for your help and Miki for the patch! >> > >> > Before I'm content is there any issue from not cleaning out the MBR? >> Like if >> > the img after the last patch is a different size then Robert's img file? >> > >> > Intending to run reboot tests overnight to make sure the patch clears >> up the >> > issue. Although if the "random" noise on the rx line spells out stop I'm >> > going to be a little spooked. >> >> The only reason i clear out the mbr in the directions, is just to help >> guarantee the user doesn't run into random >> complaints/warnings/annoyances in later "mkfs.ext4" tools. ;) >> >> and it helps make sure they have a good state of the microSD... >> >> Regards, >> >> -- >> Robert Nelson >> https://rcn-ee.com/ >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beagleboard/aXv6An1xfqI/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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.
