Re: [beagleboard] questions about BBB SD cards and formatting

2015-01-24 Thread Robert Nelson
On Jan 24, 2015 10:56 PM, liyaoshi liyao...@gmail.com wrote: If I understand correctly Boot rom dont care about the FAT table . its only read first several blocks generally , MLO should be on the 2nd block ,1st block is MBR , But if there is a FAT file system . 2nd block should be fat table ,

Re: [beagleboard] questions about BBB SD cards and formatting

2015-01-24 Thread liyaoshi
What I remember is omap3 have 64k SRAM , omap4 have 32k SRAM ,dm8148/j4/j5 have SRAM ,dm8168 have 256k am335x have 64k SRAM 2015-01-25 13:03 GMT+08:00 Robert Nelson robertcnel...@gmail.com: On Jan 24, 2015 10:56 PM, liyaoshi liyao...@gmail.com wrote: If I understand correctly Boot rom

Re: [beagleboard] questions about BBB SD cards and formatting

2015-01-24 Thread liyaoshi
If I understand correctly Boot rom dont care about the FAT table . its only read first several blocks generally , MLO should be on the 2nd block ,1st block is MBR , But if there is a FAT file system . 2nd block should be fat table , 3nd block should be MLO whats my failed boot experience is when

Re: [beagleboard] questions about BBB SD cards and formatting

2015-01-23 Thread DLF
the files are in the 1Mb hole in the front of the SD card, dd it is not touching the bootrom (if I understand your question ) On Friday, 23 January 2015 17:55:49 UTC+1, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, Robert Nelson wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Robert P. J. Day

Re: [beagleboard] questions about BBB SD cards and formatting

2015-01-23 Thread Robert Nelson
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:24 AM, DLF dumb.looks.f...@gmail.com wrote: the files are in the 1Mb hole in the front of the SD card, dd it is not touching the bootrom (if I understand your question ) Bootrom is inside the am335x... It's rom, so we can't modify it.. Regards, -- Robert

Re: [beagleboard] questions about BBB SD cards and formatting

2015-01-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, Robert Nelson wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: been a while since i had to format an SD card from scratch for my BBB and, reading RCN's instructions over at eewiki.net, i have a couple questions. reading

Re: [beagleboard] questions about BBB SD cards and formatting

2015-01-23 Thread Robert Nelson
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, Robert Nelson wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: been a while since i had to format an SD card from scratch for my BBB and, reading

Re: [beagleboard] questions about BBB SD cards and formatting

2015-01-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, Robert Nelson wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, Robert Nelson wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: been a while since i had to format

Re: [beagleboard] questions about BBB SD cards and formatting

2015-01-23 Thread Robert Nelson
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: been a while since i had to format an SD card from scratch for my BBB and, reading RCN's instructions over at eewiki.net, i have a couple questions. reading here:

Re: [beagleboard] questions about BBB SD cards and formatting

2015-01-23 Thread Robert Nelson
sorry, i phrased that question badly. obviously, i can always upgrade u-boot on my rev B, but i assume there was a point in the recent past where the onboard bootrom could handle the dd'ed MLO/u-boot.img, and that's *not* something i could update. given that my BBBs were purchased a

Re: [beagleboard] questions about BBB SD cards and formatting

2015-01-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, Robert Nelson wrote: sorry, i phrased that question badly. obviously, i can always upgrade u-boot on my rev B, but i assume there was a point in the recent past where the onboard bootrom could handle the dd'ed MLO/u-boot.img, and that's *not* something i could

Re: [beagleboard] questions about BBB SD cards and formatting

2015-01-23 Thread Robert Nelson
yup, i realize that now. is this behaviour documented somewhere in an official TI am335x/omap4+ reference manual somewhere? It tis.. under raw mode.. Regards, -- Robert Nelson http://www.rcn-ee.com/ -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message

Re: [beagleboard] questions about BBB SD cards and formatting

2015-01-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, Robert Nelson wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, Robert Nelson wrote: sorry, i phrased that question badly. obviously, i can always upgrade u-boot on my rev B, but i assume there was a

Re: [beagleboard] questions about BBB SD cards and formatting

2015-01-23 Thread Robert Nelson
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, Robert Nelson wrote: sorry, i phrased that question badly. obviously, i can always upgrade u-boot on my rev B, but i assume there was a point in the recent past where the onboard bootrom

[beagleboard] questions about BBB SD cards and formatting

2015-01-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
been a while since i had to format an SD card from scratch for my BBB and, reading RCN's instructions over at eewiki.net, i have a couple questions. reading here: https://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBone+Black#BeagleBoneBlack-SetupmicroSD/SDcard and first question is, why is there