Yeah thanks William, I was hoping there was a serial method but thinking that through I think it would be slower than an SD card!
On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 3:53 PM, William Hermans <yyrk...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 a topic in the Google > Groups "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beagleboard/n6a7J_Tby4w/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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.
