been a while since i had to format an SD card from scratch for my BBB and, reading RCN's instructions over at eewiki.net, i have a couple questions.
reading here: https://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBone+Black#BeagleBoneBlack-SetupmicroSD/SDcard and first question is, why is there no need to create and format a VFAT partition? from memory, i would always create a small, initial VFAT partition and put MLO and uboot there, and format the rest of the SD card as ext? for the rootfs. but the instructions on that page don't create an initial VFAT partition, they just raw copy MLO and u-boot.img to exact addresses on the freshly-zeroed SD card. i had no idea you could do this. or am i misreading something? (side note: since those instructions are copying to a device file, i'm guessing the dd "conv=notrunc" option is unnecessary.) finally, on my fedora rawhide system, attempting to run sfdisk as given there tells me: 1) --in-order is not even a valid option 2) both --Linux and --unit are deprecated options anyway, if anyone wants to clarify any of the above, that would be great, thanks. like i said, it's been a while since i've done this, i really should do it more often. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================
