On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 3:30 PM, ferdster <[email protected]> wrote:
> Somewhat off-topic for a BeagleBoard forum, but I hope I can get some help.
>
> I have a custom board (loosely based on a BeagleBone Black). With the help
> of the guys on TI's e2e forum, I was able to bring it up and test all the
> peripherals using their TI Linux SDK. This basically involved editing the
> device tree files and adding the Broadcom PHY driver in menuconfig.
>
> So now everything works running TI Linux, but I'd like to go to a 'real'
> Debian distro for the package support (4.4 kernel).
>
> 1. How would I go about doing this?
> 2. Can I use the u-boot (MLO, u-boot.img) that I already have, or does it
> need to be matched with the Linux distro?

There are 3 parts; bootloader, kernel and rootfs..  They are "mostly"
independent of each other, (ext4/systemd makes a few dependices on
each other)

Otherwise just follow this guide, and swap what you need.

https://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBone+Black

Regards,

-- 
Robert Nelson
https://rcn-ee.com/

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