On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 1:24 AM, <rickyc8...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, a lot of things on Linux looks like voodoo magic, and so many > mysterious codes lying everywhere :) > > That said, can you point me to the place where I can learn how that was > done, and the complete boot mechanism of the BBB? I am trying to learn the > boot process(among other things) of the BBB but there are just so much info > lying around, some are outdated and some are conflicting. Also does that > mean I can no longer access or see these two files? Is there a place where I > could download the source for the image?
Page 4934 (mmc raw mode) http://www.ti.com/lit/ug/spruh73k/spruh73k.pdf > I read your instructions at: > > https://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBone+Black#BeagleBoneBlack-SetupmicroSD/SDcard > > and saw that you have only made one partition on the SDcard with both the > kernel and file system, and before you format the card you've dd'ed both the > MLO and u-boot.img to it. Is this how that was done? And I thought that was > a mistake, silly me :) Do you you notice how we create a 1Mb hole on the front of the drive via sfdisk? After that point, the order of dd'ing the bootloader or mkfs.ext4 the partition doesn't really matter.. > I have learned a lot from what you have posted on the web, thank you for > your work and I look forward to seeing more "Products" from you. Too bad > there is not a centralized location where we can learn all these for the > BBB. Well there is this mailing list. 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/d/optout.
