@Robert, Oh, I agree. I remember commenting how far even Debian has come in the last 5 years or so when first working with your images. Then like you say, uboot is very nice. NIce enough to the point when I first started this endeavor, I was wondering whether or not I could use grub( because with x86 I knew it fairly well ). Now, I do not even give it a second thought, uboot works, and works well.
@Rusty, You may want to rephrase *"The first partition on the flash card is the boot filesystem, in some DOS format (one of the FAT flavors most likely) and the second filesystem is the root filesystem in Linux ext4 format."* FAT32 is not as well supported as FAT16, and FAT16 is kind of the unwritten standard for boot media of this type. While In many/most cases FAT32 may work, it will not always work. Anyway, just a heads up . .. On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Robert Nelson <robertcnel...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 7:05 PM, William Hermans <yyrk...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Rusty, >> >> If you read all the articles I wrote that pertain to the various steps I >> took along the way. There would be no guessing. >> >> Anyhow the first part of that article describes what must be done( from >> 30k feet ), and the second half is a working example, based on previous >> steps I took for the netboot article. It really does not get much shorter./ >> concise . . . My idea of an article was meant to teach a person to fish, >> instead of just giving them a fish( as the saying goes ). Just goes to show >> no matter how hard one tries to "please" all, it never happens ;) >> >> @Robert, >> >> The reason why I put the uImage, and dtbs files on the USB drive, simply, >> I am newb to embedded Linux, Linux development, and expect to recompile >> things several times in the process. Knowing what I do about flash media . >> . . I'd rather put as much as possible on non flash media. >> > > I just think it's cool and how far we've come with u-boot. I'm always > dealing with boards that u-boot supports less then the kernel, so I always > need the zImage/dtbs locally accessible by u-boot. ;) > > Regards, > > -- > Robert Nelson > http://www.rcn-ee.com/ > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
