On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 8:11 AM Pavel Yermolenko <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Thursday, August 27, 2020 at 2:32:36 PM UTC+2 RobertCNelson 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..
>
>
> The problem is I have only one sd-card. Once I flash eMMC from it, I begin to 
> use it for other purposes.
> But Ok, I'll buy another one.
>
>>
>> > 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..
>
>
> Ok, what next ... keeping in mind that ultimate goal is to transfer MLO and 
> u-boot.img to sd-card ?

So just "dd" those two files to the microsd to the same position.

Regards,

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

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