On 4/29/2013 7:35 AM, Michael Haberler wrote: > Greg - > > Am 29.04.2013 um 11:11 schrieb Gregg Eshelman <g_ala...@yahoo.com>: > >> --- On Sun, 4/28/13, Michael Haberler <mai...@mah.priv.at> wrote: >> >>> ad 1): Kent was the first to try and confirmed the BBB does >>> NOT boot this image; however, it doesnt boot the BBW >>> Angstrom card supplied with the BBW either, so we're in good >>> company and I am pretty sure this is a trivial issue to >>> resolve once I can get my hands on a BBB. >> Not a good thing for a new product launch to ship it with software that >> doesn't actually work. > I think you're reading something here which isnt there. > > I did _not_ say the BBB doesnt work with the Angstrom SD card as delivered. I > said 'it doesnt work with the BBW image'. > > Since the BBB has some differences to the BBW, among them 2GB flash on-board, > that wasnt entirely unlikely to happen. > >
Indeed, there is no uSD card in the Beaglebone Black box; the onboard flash memory contains an Angstrom image, and the boot code is set up for it by default. I can accept this cost-cutting measure. It's harder for me to accept that the uSD socket is very vulnerable to accidental electrical shorts when no card is inserted. If you're a messy desktop experimenter like me you'll want to protect the exposed opening of the socket by mounting the board, contriving a cover, or somesuch. From the standpoint of marketing hype, a more interesting cost-cutting measure is the use of a microHDMI connector. Add at least US$10 to the cost of the board if you want to bring out video. Locally, microHDMI-to-HDMI cables cost at least US$30. Don't have any in my junkbox so I"m running headless (which should come as no surprise to some of you). Regards, Kent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_apr _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
