From: William Hermans <yyrk...@gmail.com> Reply-To: "beagleboard@googlegroups.com" <beagleboard@googlegroups.com> Date: Friday, September 5, 2014 at 12:19 PM To: "beagleboard@googlegroups.com" <beagleboard@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: [beagleboard] debian testing: 2014-09-03 (goodbye vfat release)
>> So, we are offering more protection, as windows user's can't randomly delete >> it. > > That should read "clueless users", since I'm a windows user myself and have > never had that problem :P All windows users are clueless ;-) > > > > On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Robert Nelson <robertcnel...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 7:14 AM, Vesa Jääskeläinen <dach...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > >>> > On 04/09/14 21:24, Robert Nelson wrote: >>>> >> >>>> >> Howdy! >>>> >> >>>> >> I just pushed out another round of images for testing. >>>> >> >>>> >> There's really only "one" big change with this image, the sorta change >>>> >> that will re-write every wiki document. >>>> >> >>>> >> NO VFAT PARTITION REQUIRED!!! >>>> >> >>>> >> Let me repeat that... THE VFAT "boot" PARTITION IS NOT REQUIRED! ;) >>>> >> >>>> >> So far i've only got it to reliabley work on omap4+ bootroms (which >>>> >> include the am335x).. so beagle/beagle-xm, not yet... >>>> >> >>> > MBR/GPT's MBR emu is at the first sectors of the card. So are you using >>> > relocateable MBR/GPT? Or how are you handling that issue? >> >> Traditionally it's been a msdos partition setup... Either way, the >> first file MLO gets stored at 128k >> >>> > Would it be wise to also support backup boot loader in case first one gets >>> > corrupt? -- if I recon correctly the bootrom should also support that. >> >> We never had a backup boot loader previously.. It was just stored in >> the "fat" partition as a file and was also shared over usb as a >> "gadget usb flash drive". >> >> So, we are offering more protection, as windows user's can't randomly delete >> it. >> >> 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 >> <mailto:beagleboard%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
