On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 7:31 AM Robert Nelson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 12:58 AM Pavel Yermolenko <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Actually I have to start from scratch because as I mentioned before BBB 
> > fails to boot from eMMC and the SD card is empty.
>
> No you don't, this is your decision.  Grab a spare microSD and copy a
> console image to it, then you can boot with the spare microSD and fix
> the eMMC's extlinux.conf..
>
> > Well I will once again regenerate the image in eMMC and once again format 
> > the SD card in ext4.
> > At this critical stage, I had an empty SD card, formatted in ext4 with a 
> > single "rootfs" partition.
> > So the next step (if my understanding is correct) was to create a boot 
> > partition on the SD card, where I could then transfer MLO and u-boot.img.
> > You say I should edit exlinux.conf.
> > Ok i will do it as you suggest
> > And then?
> > What should I do with this exlinux.conf in order to create a boot partition 
> > on the SD card.
> > BTW execution of generate_extlinux.sh (which creates exlinux.conf on eMMC) 
> > corrupts eMMC: after execution of generate_extlinux.sh eMMC becomes 
> > "unbootable".
>
> It's not unbootable, your using the eMMC, change the
> root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 to root=/dev/mmcblk1p1
>
> It's hard-coded to the microSD because I spent about a minute writing
> generate_extlinux.sh to show 'how' it could be done..
>
> https://github.com/RobertCNelson/boot-scripts/blob/master/tools/generate_extlinux.sh#L16

now fixed.. 
https://github.com/RobertCNelson/boot-scripts/commit/52f044c01bf91827d771ff786ea39338add2076a

Regards,

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

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