From: Brandon I <brandon.ir...@gmail.com> Reply-To: <beagleboard@googlegroups.com> Date: Friday, February 28, 2014 at 4:34 PM To: <beagleboard@googlegroups.com> Cc: <jhgo...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [beagleboard] How are the production BBB images built?
>> > Maybe we can become free from SD cards in the near future for BBB >> development. > > Doesn't uboot support network boot already? Hi Brandon, I use u-boot on my BBB to tftp zImage from my desktop and then mount rootfs via NFS on my desktop. Is that what you want? Regards, John > > > On Thursday, February 27, 2014 11:29:23 PM UTC-8, jhg...@gmail.com wrote: >> Robert, >> >> Have you resolved any of these mysteries in the mean time? >> >> I got into this by trying to "bitbake" a simpler image, such as >> console-image, since I need no graphics or fancy webserver with node.js foo. >> So far I have failed to boot from the SD card with anything which has been >> made by the oebb.sh script or bitbake build system. Even Derek's 2-year-old >> instructions >> <http://derekmolloy.ie/building-angstrom-for-beaglebone-from-source/> seem >> not to work for "console-image". >> >> After I succeed at booting the BBB with my own custom image, I plan on >> updating u-boot to allow "fastboot", an feature more commonly supported by >> Android which allows one to boot or flash over USB, ethernet, etc. Maybe we >> can become free from SD cards in the near future for BBB development. >> >> Cheers, >> Joe >> >> On Friday, July 12, 2013 8:30:29 AM UTC-4, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >>> On Fri, 12 Jul 2013, Chris Morgan wrote: >>> >>>> > On Friday, July 12, 2013, Koen Kooi wrote: >>>> > >>>> > Op 12 jul. 2013, om 13:46 heeft Robert P. J. Day >>>> <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> het >>>> > volgende geschreven: >>>> > >>>>> > > On Fri, 12 Jul 2013, Koen Kooi wrote: >>>>> > > >>>>>> > >> It's all in the SRM, but for people too lazy to read that: >>>>>> > >> >>>>>> > >> ï¿1Ž2 ï¿1Ž2 ï¿1Ž2Read >>>>>> http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/building-angstrom and follow the >>>> > steps outlined there. >>>>> > > >>>>> > > ï¿1Ž2gaaaaaah ... i am not interested in the general philosophy >>>>> > of how to >>>>> > > build angstrom, that's *not* the question on the table. the question >>>>> > > is, which *particular* configuration of angstrom is the one that >>>>> > > matches what is currently shipping on the BBB? >>>> > >>>> > The one I linked above. There is only one configuration of angstrom >>>> per release and >>>> > the above matches the release that ships with the bones. >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > Hello. >>>> > >>>> > I followed those instructions and, although I had selected the yocto >>>> > 2013 release, I ended up with the component files in the deploy/ >>>> > directory but as rootfs and ubi files, not card images. >>>> > >>>> > The information yesterday about the emmc-prepare.sh and other >>>> > scripts has helped informationaly, I think I'll be able to build a >>>> > sd card image today using those steps, but at this point it seems >>>> > like a multi step process after following the angstrom build steps. >>> >>> actually, that's what i would have expected ... the primary purpose >>> of OE/yocto is to build the fundamental images or objects, not so much >>> to create the final bootable SD card image based on them, since some >>> people might not want an SD card, they might be, say, trying to >>> populate a TFTP or NFS server with those images. >>> >>> rday >>> >>> -- >>> >>> ======================================================================== >>> Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA >>> http://crashcourse.ca >>> >>> Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday >>> LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday >>> ======================================================================== > -- > 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.
