Just to see if it would "just work", I tried to run the script from my distribution and the scrip is unhappy:
/bin/bash /opt/scripts/beaglebone-black-eMMC-flasher.sh Error: script halting, system unrecognized... On Friday, March 21, 2014 1:51:55 PM UTC-4, Louis Thiery wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm trying to leverage the flashing process included in the new Debian > images to move my own distribution over but I'm confused on the current > mechanics. > > I did find this page: http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:Updating_The_Software > > but perhaps that explains how flashing used to work with Angstrom? I > wasn't able to see the same architecture happening over on the new Debian > images which works in 15 minutes instead of 45 minutes. > > I did find */opt/scripts/tools/beaglebone-black-eMMC-flasher.sh *but I'm > not particularly sure of the mechanics. > > It seems to me that when the boot button is pressed, the BBB mounts and > boots from the eMMC-flasher partition. Somehow this script is executed (I > couldn't find the relevant systemd process) and it copies over everything > on that same partition over to the eMMC and then powers off. > > Next time, I boot from the eMMC, how does the script knows to not execute, > seeing as it can't really copy the eMMC to the eMMC... How does all this > work? > > Thanks, > Louis > -- 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/d/optout.
