Re: [beagleboard] Trying to make flash install of my customized Beaglebone Black

2014-03-25 Thread Artie Mistler
I know that you did say this was for Debian, and as stated before I'm using
Angstrom.

Any things you can think of that would be gotchas?  For instance the
location of uEnv.txt is in /boot, not /boot/uboot.  So I'm adapting the
script, but creating a /boot/uboot subdirectory to copy and place the
zImage, initrd.img and any other files.  What I've also run into is that
Angstrom doesn't have update-initramfs, so I was figuring to install that;
it requires that I reconfigure from private network to DHCP and run opkg.
But wondering if I'd be heading down a bad direction by trying to adapt
that script if it really would match my intent but the intended system is
different enough that the details need a lot of changes.


On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Robert Nelson robertcnel...@gmail.comwrote:

 On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Robert Nelson robertcnel...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Artie Mistler rtmist...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  I'm using Angstrom, but I'll see if I can grab that script and adapt it
 to
  work for my case.  Thanks for the reference.
  - RT
 
  It's dependent on a variable stored in uEnv.txt and a custom init
  script, but otherwise it's just rsync that does all the real work..

 For reference, the script is hosted here:


 https://github.com/RobertCNelson/boot-scripts/blob/master/tools/eMMC/beaglebone-black-make-microSD-flasher-from-eMMC.sh

 (that way you don't have to flash the image to get it.)

 Regards,

 --
 Robert Nelson
 http://www.rcn-ee.com/

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Re: [beagleboard] Trying to make flash install of my customized Beaglebone Black

2014-03-24 Thread Robert Nelson
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 2:07 PM, RT Mistler rtmist...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 I'm trying to take the contents of flash that I have working and make a copy
 of it for distribution.

 For instance, you can download a flash imager which will put the default
 release onto your MMC flash in it's entirety.  I can do that, but then I
 have to customize to install or configure it to work the way I have chosen
 for multiple boards.  If I could use that flash imager process but have the
 image it flashes be what I have now, this would be helpful.

 I do realize that I can use the dd command as well as connecting a uSD card
 via a card reader and copy my entire flash over to that uSD and then that
 uSD will work on another board.  That's a lot slower performing, not my
 first preference.  On the flipside of that, I'm fairly positive that I can
 NOT boot off of a uSD and then use dd to copy to my MMC flash; maybe I'm
 wrong there.  That would be a good interim solution, but ultimately I think
 it would be helpful if I could somehow create a flash image where the
 flasher would just burn my default disk as my starting point for each board,
 this way an installer person could perform these actions and get repeatable
 results on multiple boards.

 Anyone have any thoughts or know of a set of instructions that might be
 helpful?  Believe me I've searched a bit, maybe just used the incorrect
 terms, I haven't found anything except the instructions about how to
 download the default flash image and burn that.

Well, if your using the newer Debian images hosted here:

http://beagleboard.org/latest-images

There's a little gem, under /opt/scripts/tools/eMMC/*.sh to do what you want.

Regards,

-- 
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http://www.rcn-ee.com/

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Re: [beagleboard] Trying to make flash install of my customized Beaglebone Black

2014-03-24 Thread Artie Mistler
I'm using Angstrom, but I'll see if I can grab that script and adapt it to
work for my case.  Thanks for the reference.
- RT


On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Robert Nelson robertcnel...@gmail.comwrote:

 On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 2:07 PM, RT Mistler rtmist...@gmail.com wrote:
  Hi,
 
  I'm trying to take the contents of flash that I have working and make a
 copy
  of it for distribution.
 
  For instance, you can download a flash imager which will put the default
  release onto your MMC flash in it's entirety.  I can do that, but then I
  have to customize to install or configure it to work the way I have
 chosen
  for multiple boards.  If I could use that flash imager process but have
 the
  image it flashes be what I have now, this would be helpful.
 
  I do realize that I can use the dd command as well as connecting a uSD
 card
  via a card reader and copy my entire flash over to that uSD and then that
  uSD will work on another board.  That's a lot slower performing, not my
  first preference.  On the flipside of that, I'm fairly positive that I
 can
  NOT boot off of a uSD and then use dd to copy to my MMC flash; maybe I'm
  wrong there.  That would be a good interim solution, but ultimately I
 think
  it would be helpful if I could somehow create a flash image where the
  flasher would just burn my default disk as my starting point for each
 board,
  this way an installer person could perform these actions and get
 repeatable
  results on multiple boards.
 
  Anyone have any thoughts or know of a set of instructions that might be
  helpful?  Believe me I've searched a bit, maybe just used the incorrect
  terms, I haven't found anything except the instructions about how to
  download the default flash image and burn that.

 Well, if your using the newer Debian images hosted here:

 http://beagleboard.org/latest-images

 There's a little gem, under /opt/scripts/tools/eMMC/*.sh to do what you
 want.

 Regards,

 --
 Robert Nelson
 http://www.rcn-ee.com/

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Re: [beagleboard] Trying to make flash install of my customized Beaglebone Black

2014-03-24 Thread Robert Nelson
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Artie Mistler rtmist...@gmail.com wrote:
 I'm using Angstrom, but I'll see if I can grab that script and adapt it to
 work for my case.  Thanks for the reference.
 - RT

It's dependent on a variable stored in uEnv.txt and a custom init
script, but otherwise it's just rsync that does all the real work..

Regards,

-- 
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http://www.rcn-ee.com/

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Re: [beagleboard] Trying to make flash install of my customized Beaglebone Black

2014-03-24 Thread Robert Nelson
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Robert Nelson robertcnel...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Artie Mistler rtmist...@gmail.com wrote:
 I'm using Angstrom, but I'll see if I can grab that script and adapt it to
 work for my case.  Thanks for the reference.
 - RT

 It's dependent on a variable stored in uEnv.txt and a custom init
 script, but otherwise it's just rsync that does all the real work..

For reference, the script is hosted here:

https://github.com/RobertCNelson/boot-scripts/blob/master/tools/eMMC/beaglebone-black-make-microSD-flasher-from-eMMC.sh

(that way you don't have to flash the image to get it.)

Regards,

-- 
Robert Nelson
http://www.rcn-ee.com/

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Re: [beagleboard] Trying to make flash install of my customized Beaglebone Black

2014-03-24 Thread Artie Mistler
Thanks!  Yeah, I've been in the process of downloading the .xz file!
Actually just finished, but way better than burning an image.
- RT


On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Robert Nelson robertcnel...@gmail.comwrote:

 On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Robert Nelson robertcnel...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Artie Mistler rtmist...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  I'm using Angstrom, but I'll see if I can grab that script and adapt it
 to
  work for my case.  Thanks for the reference.
  - RT
 
  It's dependent on a variable stored in uEnv.txt and a custom init
  script, but otherwise it's just rsync that does all the real work..

 For reference, the script is hosted here:


 https://github.com/RobertCNelson/boot-scripts/blob/master/tools/eMMC/beaglebone-black-make-microSD-flasher-from-eMMC.sh

 (that way you don't have to flash the image to get it.)

 Regards,

 --
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 http://www.rcn-ee.com/

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