One other option not mentioned. Which is "burning" from USB. Pretty much, all methods requires an sdcard, period. So, just using a large sdcard, with a small boot / rootfs, and a larger partition mounted, where every with all the data needed to be "burned" to eMMC. Thats all that's needed.
So the data partition can be anything, then it's just a matter of mounting that media, and using it exactly how an sdcard would be used in it's stead. network mount, sdcard, USB media, whatever. It all the same at this point. I do recall something about "serial boot", but meh that sounds like a huge hassle . . . but also note that an NFS mount will be slower than both USB, or using the sdcard directly. In fact, for reads, I do not think anything will be faster than sdcard . . . in this context. On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 8:46 AM, Lee Armstrong <l...@pinkfroot.com> wrote: > Thanks for all of your experiences. Interesting you use the SD in > production. That is similar to what I am doing now. > > Günter, that is much quicker than the 5 minutes I have it down to at the > moment so may invest some time in that process. > > Lee > > > On Monday, December 7, 2015 at 2:56:56 PM UTC, dl4mea wrote: >> >> Hello Lee, >> >> my process is that I have a running Linux on a bootable SD card. >> As a autostart service, there is a scripted executed, which performs >> >> 1) partitioning of the eMMC card >> 2) copy u-boot.bin and MLO to the first sectors of the eMMC >> 3) format the 1st (and only) partition with ext4 file system >> 4) unzip/untar a master tar.gz from the boot media to the data partition >> 5) patch the extracted uEnv.txt with the actual UUID of the partition on >> eMMC >> 6) initiate regeneration of ssh host keys (touch /etc/ssh/ssh.regenerate) >> 7) sync >> 8) power off >> >> That takes about 1min to flash one Beaglebone. It takes somewhat longer >> if the BBB is not connected to a network, because then it needs a network >> timeout to proceed >> >> cheers, Günter (dl4mea) >> >> >> >> -- > 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.
