On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 12:25 PM, ags <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well yes, I can mount and edit. It didn't occur to me that a card inserted
> after boot would be detected. Thanks for that advice. Following up with more
> on the topic:
>
> 1) Is there a reason that the SD card isn't in /etc/fstab to make mounting
> simple for beginners - or auto-mounted? In other words, is that a bad idea
> to be avoided? Perhaps an issue with trying to share a single image for
> SDcard and eMMC boooting?

There's no guarantee users would plug in a microSD with the exact same
configuration..


> 2) On the image I downloaded and put on the SD card there is both
> /boot/uEnv.txt and /uEnv.txt. What is the reason/purpose for the /uEnv.txt?
> I'm pretty sure I didn't create/copy it - it's totally different than
> /boot/uEnv.txt - from comments it looks like it aims to support older
> Angstrom/2014 Debian systems?

/uEnv.txt is just for backwards compatibility with older eMMC images.

> 3) If I understand correctly there is another FAT volume on the eMMC as
> shipped, that is seen as a remote (FAT?) volume when the BBB is connected as
> a USB client. Is there any way to mount that for access from the bone
> directly?

It's a raw image file, /var/local/*.img

Regards,

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

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