This question will reveal what a newbie I am: I have seen several posts that say I have to un-comment out a particular line in uENV.txt on the SD card. My question is, how do I find that file? I don't even know how to get a listing of files and directories on the SD card. Help!!? Thanks...Arnie
On Monday, July 4, 2016 at 6:59:28 PM UTC-4, William Hermans wrote: > > *On Debian 8 and later, this usually means that you do not have the "boot >> bit" set on the card.* >> > > No . ..as I said. It means there is an older bootloader on the emmc. If > you remove the bootloader, said problem goes away. > > On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 3:33 PM, Graham Haddock <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> It should automatically boot from the card without having to push the >> boot button. >> On Debian 8 and later, this usually means that you do not have the "boot >> bit" set on the card. >> >> If you created the card by installing the resident version of Debian, >> then expanding the partition, the "boot bit" should already be set. >> >> If you created the card some other way, then put it in a Linux desktop, >> and run Gparted. Go into the option-menus and manually set the boot bit. >> It should then automatically boot, whenever you apply power to the BBB. >> >> There is probably some other way to manually edit the card and set the >> bit, but I find Gparted very easy to use. >> >> I am running a BBG as a SoftEther VPN server and it works fine. No need >> to push buttons to get it to boot. >> >> --- Graham >> >> == >> >> On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 4:14 PM, William Hermans <[email protected] >> <javascript:>> wrote: >> >>> > Graham (or anyone who knows....): >>> > I use my BBB as a VPN server running Softether. Right now, it is all >>> running from a 16gb uSD card which means that I >have to hold the button >>> every time I power it up. >>> The reason for this is that you have an older bootloader on the emmc. >>> You can change this behavior if you wish. BY two differnt method I >>> personally am aware of. >>> >>> >Can you tell me how to get this all into the eMMC memory? I don't use >>> any >video or GUI but don't know how to eliminate >those features from the >>> Debian Jessie 8.4 that I am running so that there >would be room for >>> Softether as well in the eMMC. >>> > Thanks in advance for help with this...Arnie >>> >>> You download and put a flasher image onto an sdcard. Instead of a >>> standalone image. >>> >>> On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 11:05 AM, <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: >>> >>>> Graham (or anyone who knows....): >>>> I use my BBB as a VPN server running Softether. Right now, it is all >>>> running from a 16gb uSD card which means that I have to hold the button >>>> every time I power it up. Can you tell me how to get this all into the >>>> eMMC >>>> memory? I don't use any video or GUI but don't know how to eliminate those >>>> features from the Debian Jessie 8.4 that I am running so that there would >>>> be room for Softether as well in the eMMC. >>>> Thanks in advance for help with this...Arnie >>>> >>>> On Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at 10:18:44 AM UTC-4, Graham wrote: >>>>> >>>>> You never said how you are running the BBB. >>>>> If you are running without a video display, local or remote, then you >>>>> don't need about half of what is in the full package. >>>>> Then you could load a minimum "console" package, which will only fill >>>>> 1.7G of your 4 G eMMC, then add in what else you need to run your >>>>> application. >>>>> So, you would have about 2 GB of play space. >>>>> >>>>> If you have a video display you are better off going with the full >>>>> package.. >>>>> >>>>> --- Graham >>>>> >>>>> == >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at 8:27:27 AM UTC-5, blues man wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks, Graham! I'll just use my 64G uSD card, expand the file >>>>>> system, and go back to JRMC on Debian. I guess the older images didn't >>>>>> fill the eMMC, so I still had room for JRMC - but the latest one tipped >>>>>> the >>>>>> scale too far. 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