You always boot the bootloader off the eMMC unless: A) bootloaders do not exist on the eMMC or B) You press and hold the boot button at power up
On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 8:52 PM, Wally Bkg <[email protected]> wrote: > If I burn the image to an SD card, how can it tell if I boot it in a BBG > or BBB Rev C or A5A initially? Does the very first boot modify the init > scripts? I though all the differences were supposed to be handled in the > device tree overlays. > > I've been "cloning" Ubuntu systems for a long time (since 2006) and other > than grub UUID issues and some binary video drivers not matching the video > card variant, its just not been a problem. > > If the "clone" didn't work on either Ubuntu or Windows I would have > assumed the initial boot was "self-modifying", and tried to figure out the > dpkg dselect stuff to create a "master list" to apt-get install all my > bits and pieces instead of setting up a master system and cloning it. But > I actually thought I was clever and done until I tried the BBB on Windows 7. > > In any event, the BBG makes more sense to for me for the future, as I > find the BBB HDMI to be pretty lame, claims a lot of GPIO pins, and ssh -X > on the Green seems to run GUI apps better that the BBB HDMI keyboard/mouse > does natively -- expected since my desktop is doing all the graphics heavy > lifting. > > > On Saturday, December 26, 2015 at 9:25:42 PM UTC-6, William Hermans wrote: >> >> >> Thirdly, you should never create an image for one type of Beagle, and >> expect it to work 100% on another. Especially considering there have been >> minor hardware changes between A5A to RevC, not to mention the BBG is a one >> step further out, off the RevC "branch". With even more changes in it's own >> right. >> >> >> -- > 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 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.
