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.
>>
>>
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