Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 09:21:44 +0300 From: Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com> Cc: Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD on BeagleBone Black from microSD by default Message-ID: <35268C07-C9A3-430C-BB06-E2B99227DE5C@cs.huji.ac.il> In-Reply-To: <87D8B295-950F-4B9D-AF58-0455FC212087@kientzle.com> References: <20160413095534.B48EA406057@ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net> <1460560419.52955.23.camel@freebsd.org> <CAPyFy2AHdog0GzLBDQWeg%2B494yWo73gEJzFBPS_v=Nz3YparUA@mail.gmail.com> <87D8B295-950F-4B9D-AF58-0455FC212087@kientzle.com>
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> On 29 Jun 2016, at 07:14, Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com> wrote: >=20 >>=20 >> On Jun 28, 2016, at 12:45 PM, Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >>=20 >> On 13 April 2016 at 11:13, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote: >>> On Wed, 2016-04-13 at 02:55 -0700, Hal Murray wrote: >>>>> gpart unset -a active -i 1 mmcsd1 >>>>=20 >>>> Many thanks. That's just what I was looking for. >>>>=20 >>>> It would make a good addition to the wiki. >>>=20 >>> Oh, that's a good idea (so I did it). >>=20 >> On a related note, do you know if it's possible for the stock uboot = on >> the eMMC to chain-load a new uboot from the SD card somehow (in order >> to avoid needing to make any change to the eMMC image)? >=20 > If I remember correctly, the uboot provided on the stock eMMC image = was configured to see if the SD card had a Linux kernel and load the = kernel from that if it was there. If the SD did not have a Linux = kernel, it would fall back to eMMC. >=20 > Of course, if you=E2=80=99re willing to hold the boot switch, you can = boot from SD without changing the eMMC. >=20 last time I did this, and as far as I remember, you had to hold the boot = switch only once, after that every reboot was from the sd card. danny > Tim >=20 >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arm@freebsd.org <mailto:freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm = <https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm>; > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arm-unsubscribe@freebsd.org = <mailto:freebsd-arm-unsubscribe@freebsd.org>"
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