Sorry.  I am using Beaglebone Black.  I saw that (no FAT) on the BBB page 
at eewiki.net and was puzzled.

On Monday, April 11, 2016 at 8:53:54 PM UTC-4, RobertCNelson wrote:
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>
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> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 6:24 PM, <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote:
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>> What is the magic to make a DOS partition on a uSD card acceptable to the 
>> X booter (ROM code)?  Does it have to be the first partition? Bootable? FAT 
>> type? Certain size?  I can't seem to make a partition with fdisk on linux 
>> that the ROM code will accept.  I thought maybe it didn't like FAT32 but 
>> FreeBSD boots happily from a FAT 32 partition.  FAT 12 doesn't even work 
>> although Debian boots fine from FAT 12.  I can't see what is different 
>> between what linux fdisk makes and the bootable Debian or FreeBSD 
>> partitions.
>>
>
> Specifically, which TI device are you talking about?  FAT isn't even a 
> requirement anymore.. (depending on the TI device)
>
> Regards,
>
> -- 
> Robert Nelson
> https://rcn-ee.com/
>

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