Just to make things perhaps a little clearer . . .

william@beaglebone:~$ pwd
/home/william
william@beaglebone:~$ ls /
ID.txt  boot  etc   lib         media  nfs-uEnv.txt  proc  run   selinux
sys  *uEnv.txt*       usr
bin     dev   home  lost+found  mnt    opt           root  sbin  srv
tmp  uEnv.txt.save  var


On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 2:11 AM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote:

> Oh, and if you're using the eMMC only, you need to have uEnv,txt located
> in the first partition at root of the "drive". So in laymen terms . . .
>
> /uEnv.txt - Not /boot/uEnv.txt or anywhere else *unless* you modify uboots
> code before compiling.
>
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 2:08 AM, William Hermans <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> *It also seems that u-boot will try to took for uEnv.txt in several
>>> partitions, and seeing some "** Unable to read file uEnv.txt **" messages
>>> are ok.  Is this correct?*
>>>
>>
>> No. If you have an sdcard inserted at boot it will always load the first
>> and second stage boot loaders from eMMC, but it will always look to the
>> first partition on the sdcard for uEnv.txt.
>>
>> The only exception is if S2 is depressed at boot time, then the first and
>> second stage boot loader will be "attempted" from the sdcard first, but
>> uEnv.txt will still be expected to exist on the sdcard.
>>
>> Many people ( yours truly included ) have in the past bemoaned this
>> behavior of uboot. When having a blank sdcard inserted at boot.
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 10:50 PM, David Hinkes <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the response, I appreciate it.
>>>
>>>
>>>> > Questions:
>>>> > (1) What are the requirements for the location of uEnv.txt?
>>>>
>>>> Look at the flow:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot.git;a=blob;f=include/configs/am335x_evm.h;h=6ebe0b3866f9b137472cc080c9eb8f1e38233186;hb=df61a74e6845ec9bdcdd48d2aff5e9c2c6debeaa#l130
>>>>
>>>> /uEnv.txt in the first partition...
>>>>
>>>
>>> I tried that and no luck.
>>>
>>> I realized that I configured u-boot with am335x_boneblack_defconfig and
>>> instead of am335x_evm_defconfig.
>>>
>>> It also seems that u-boot will try to took for uEnv.txt in several
>>> partitions, and seeing some "** Unable to read file uEnv.txt **" messages
>>> are ok.  Is this correct?
>>>
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