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From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely7.cicely.de>
To: Hal Murray <hmurray@megapathdsl.net>
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Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD on BeagleBone Black from microSD by default
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On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 09:06:55PM -0700, Hal Murray wrote:
> 
> Does anybody have the recipe for setting things up so that power on boots 
> from the microSD card without holding down the button?

This is a hardware decision to try booting from eMMC first.
The only thing you can do is removing the bootcode from the eMMC.
The ROM code then falls back to the next boot option, which is the card slot.
I usually dd /dev/zero on the eMMC for that.

> I'm slightly surprised it isn't in the wiki.
> 
> I'm pretty sure it will be simple after I know how to do it.  Google found info on the idea, but I couldn't find the file that needs editing.  It's off in uBoot land.

-- 
B.Walter <bernd@bwct.de> http://www.bwct.de
Modbus/TCP Ethernet I/O Baugruppen, ARM basierte FreeBSD Rechner uvm.