Date: Sun, 22 May 2016 18:53:59 +0000 From: William Waites <wwaites@tardis.ed.ac.uk> To: freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Booting the Beaglebone Black from internal flash Message-ID: <86zirhq5yw.fsf@naartjie.uucp>
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I've gotten my BBB to boot and run off of its internal flash. It wasn't
terribly difficult and maybe this is old news, but I had a lot of
trouble finding instructions for how to do it. Here's what I did, in
case it's useful.
1. Start from an image written to SD card. At the time of writing
there seems to be a problem with the 11 images, but 10.3 works
fine.
2. Delete any existing partitions from the internal flash, as well as
the partition table so that we can start from scratch:
gpart delete -i 2 mmcsd1
gpart delete -i 1 mmcsd1
gpart destroy mmcsd1
3. Create partitions similarly to the SD card:
gpart create -s GPT mmcsd1
gpart add -t \!12 -b 63 -s 2M mmcsd1
gpart set -a active -i 1 mmcsd1
gpart add -t freebsd mmcsd1
gpart add -t freebsd-ufs mmcsd1s2
It is unclear if it is necessary or why to use a traditional
disklabel here instead of just putting the freebsd-ufs directly in
slice 2.
4. Create filesystems:
newfs_msdos -F 12 /dev/mmcsd1s1
newfs -U -t /dev/mmcsd1s2a
These filesystems do not (yet) have labels so they won't be
magically found by the boot process. It does not appear to be
possible to label them while there are other filesystems mounted
with those labels.
5. Mount the filesystems:
mount /dev/mmcsd1s2a /mnt
mkdir -p /mnt/boot/msdos
mount -t msdosfs /dev/mmcsd1s1 /mnt/boot/msdos
6. Copy the running system onto the internal flash:
cd /boot/msdos; tar -cf - ./ | (cd /mnt/boot/msdos; tar -xpvf -)
cd /; tar --one-file-system -cf - ./ | (cd /mnt; tar -xpvf -)
This could alternatively be done by building from source, and
installing with DESTDIR=/mnt or potentially using the distribution
sets. Except perhaps for the early bootloader stages which come
from the sysutils/u-boot-beaglebone port I believe.
7. Make sure that booting will proceed from the internal flash,
because the default in u-boot is to use mmc 0 (the external SD
card).
echo 'fatdev=mmc 1' > /mnt/boot/msdos/uenv.txt
8. Halt the system, remove the SD card, boot into single user mode to
label the disks. The kernel will not be able to find the root
partition, and it needs to be specified as ufs:/dev/mmcsd0s2a when
asked.
glabel label MSDOSBOOT mmcsd0s1
glabel label rootfs mmcsd0s2a
Notice that now the device is mmcsd0 and not mmcsd1. This is
because of the way the numbering works which is slightly
inconvenient.
9. Reboot and done.
9a. Not really, for me the kernel was still unable to find the
filesystem with rootfs label, and I resorted to building a kernel
with
options ROOTDEVNAME=\"ufs:mmcsd0s2a\"
The default in the BEAGLEBONE config is ufs:mmcsd0s2 which would
probably have worked if not using BSD disklabels and putting the
filesystem directly there (see #3).
Is it a good idea to write this down in the wiki?
Best wishes,
-w
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