had a similar experience, setting up the SD card from Windows. At first, it failed, since Windows had put CR/LF into the text file. A bit of editing with Hex Editor Neo removed the CR, then it worked fine as auxiliary storage, even mounting it on the Windows desktop when the BBB was connected via USB (GREAT!).
Then I used that same SD card to reflash the BBB (a process which obviously destroys the partition table on the SD card). After reflashing, I put the card back into the Windows machine, reformatted it (twice, with intervening removal of the card, to get Windows to recognize the full 32GB), and put the uEnv.txt file onto it. Putting that into the BBB, the BBB would no longer boot properly. Two days of fiddling later, and after buying another SD card to compare (it worked fine, again), I discovered the broken SD card had no partition, and I couldn't find a nice way to get Windows to create an MBR partition on an SD card. Booting BBB with HDMI/keyboard/mouse, but without the broken SD card, I could then plug in the SD card, reformat it properly in Angstrom (Applications -> System Tools -> Disk Utility, select that SD card, unmount it, select Format Drive in the top left part of the screen, and request MasterBootRecord format). Problem solved. Whew - two days of time wasted! Jim On Wednesday, September 25, 2013 5:02:23 AM UTC-5, basi...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Hi, > > I received my new BBB few days ago and I'm eager to start playing with it. > I'm having problem trying to use the microSD as extra storage. > > I Flashed the eMMc with the latest img: > BBB-eMMC-flasher-2013.06.20.img > > It worked fine. > I followed then the instructions here: > http://circuitco.com/support/index.php?title=MicroSD_As_Extra_Storage > > I partitioned the microSD card in the following partitions: > - a 32MB FAT32 partition to host the uEnv.txt file > - the rest as etx4 partition for storage. > http://screencast.com/t/gZGJdvfhE > > (I actually made many tests with various filesystem types) > > I wrote the following text in uEnv.txt > > mmcdev=1 > bootpart=1:2 > mmcroot=/dev/mmcblk1p2 ro > optargs=quiet > > > But then whe I put the microSD in the BBB and see what the serial console > shows me I see that it stops saying: > ** Bad partition specification mmc 1:2 ** > > mmc 1:2 refers to the value of bootpart in uEnv.txt > I tried with bootpart=1:1 and I get then > ** Bad partition specification mmc 1:1 ** > > > > (I even tried after upgrading all packages with opkg update/upgrade) > > So, what am I missing now? > The strange things is that few days ago I followed exactly the same > procedure and it worked without any issue: the BBB boot withe microSSD in > and later I could mount the both partitions. > But now it looks like something is changed. > > Any suggestion? > Thanks in advance > > PS. below you find the serial console output when I boot the BBB with the > microSD in > ----------- > U-Boot SPL 2013.04-dirty (Jun 19 2013 - 09:57:14) > musb-hdrc: ConfigData=0xde (UTMI-8, dyn FIFOs, HB-ISO Rx, HB-ISO Tx, > SoftConn) > musb-hdrc: MHDRC RTL version 2.0 > musb-hdrc: setup fifo_mode 4 > musb-hdrc: 28/31 max ep, 16384/16384 memory > USB Peripheral mode controller at 47401000 using PIO, IRQ 0 > musb-hdrc: ConfigData=0xde (UTMI-8, dyn FIFOs, HB-ISO Rx, HB-ISO Tx, > SoftConn) > musb-hdrc: MHDRC RTL version 2.0 > musb-hdrc: setup fifo_mode 4 > musb-hdrc: 28/31 max ep, 16384/16384 memory > USB Host mode controller at 47401800 using PIO, IRQ 0 > OMAP SD/MMC: 0 > mmc_send_cmd : timeout: No status update > reading u-boot.img > reading u-boot.img > > > U-Boot 2013.04-dirty (Jun 19 2013 - 09:57:14) > > I2C: ready > DRAM: 512 MiB > WARNING: Caches not enabled > NAND: No NAND device found!!! > 0 MiB > MMC: OMAP SD/MMC: 0, OMAP SD/MMC: 1 > *** Warning - readenv() failed, using default environment > > musb-hdrc: ConfigData=0xde (UTMI-8, dyn FIFOs, HB-ISO Rx, HB-ISO Tx, > SoftConn) > musb-hdrc: MHDRC RTL version 2.0 > musb-hdrc: setup fifo_mode 4 > musb-hdrc: 28/31 max ep, 16384/16384 memory > USB Peripheral mode controller at 47401000 using PIO, IRQ 0 > musb-hdrc: ConfigData=0xde (UTMI-8, dyn FIFOs, HB-ISO Rx, HB-ISO Tx, > SoftConn) > musb-hdrc: MHDRC RTL version 2.0 > musb-hdrc: setup fifo_mode 4 > musb-hdrc: 28/31 max ep, 16384/16384 memory > USB Host mode controller at 47401800 using PIO, IRQ 0 > Net: <ethaddr> not set. Validating first E-fuse MAC > cpsw, usb_ether > Hit any key to stop autoboot: 1 0 > gpio: pin 53 (gpio 53) value is 1 > mmc0 is current device > micro SD card found > mmc0 is current device > gpio: pin 54 (gpio 54) value is 1 > SD/MMC found on device 0 > reading uEnv.txt > 64 bytes read in 3 ms (20.5 KiB/s) > Loaded environment from uEnv.txt > Importing environment from mmc ... > gpio: pin 55 (gpio 55) value is 1 > mmc_send_cmd : timeout: No status update > ** Bad partition specification mmc 1:2 ** > U-Boot# > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
