On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 3:41 PM Robert Heller <[email protected]> wrote: > > OK, my BeagleBone Black today. I don't have the MicroSD card I ordered for > it, but decided to fire it up with the USB cable it came with. Much to my > supprise, it actually booted Debian 7. The USB <=> Networking worked (even on > my older CentOS 6 kernel). I'm guessing this is on the internal 4Gig Flash > memory. It made no attempt to get an IP address for the Ethernet when I > jacked it into my LAN though... > > My questions: > > When I get my MicroSD card and dd Debian 9 onto it, will I need to do anything > special to make it boot from the MicroSD card and not the internal Flash?
There will be a few issues, depending on how old the bootloader is on the eMMC. You just need to make sure to hold the "boot" button down with your finger nail before you apply power to force the bootrom to default to the microSD.. Once booted up on the microSD you can erase the eMMC to make sure it doesn't get in your way.. > I'm guessing that the Debian 7 image on the Flash memory might just not be set > up to fire up the Ethernet and get an IP address for it. Is this right? So the Ethernet should come up, on a fresh board it'll take anywhere between 25 - 60 seconds, as it's busy regenerating ssh key's etc.. Regards, -- Robert Nelson https://rcn-ee.com/ -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CAOCHtYiT%3DGfyq98niaauciSL9GkmXMAh8_bpUZ7eiZTLZLQHbw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
