Hi Dennis, On Monday, 19 September 2016 06:51:43 UTC+5:30, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > > On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 10:27:55 -0700 (PDT), Viswadeep Sarangi > <deepu...@gmail.com <javascript:>> declaimed the > following: > > >I flashed the linux disk image (which I downloaded as .img.xz and > extracted > > Down-loaded from where? > I downloaded a kali linux image from : https://images.offensive-security.com/arm-images/kali-2.1.2-bbb.img.xz The image itself uncompressed itself to be 6.8 GB. Does it mean that I cannot flash the eMMC because of the large size ?
> > >After flashing the image, I got the following partitions in the uSD > (which > >I checked using Windows 8.1 Disk Management Utility) > >1. 128 MB FAT Healthy Primary Partition > >2. 6.71 GB Linux Partition - Healthy Primary Partition > > The "standard" images create a 4GB Linux partition (the size of > the > eMMC should one use the image to flash the eMMC). To use the rest of an SD > card requires playing games with the partition table (somewhat scary to > "delete" the only partition on the card, before writing a new definition > using the whole card, without losing the data itself). I don't think the > current images create a FAT partition at all. > > So... How you managed to get a nearly 7GB Linux partition implies > using > a "non-standard" OS image. What are the contents of the FAT partition? > It's > potentially a case that the boot sequence is looking for u-Boot > initialization on that partition. > The contents of the FAT partition include : - a "dtbs" directory, which contains a lot of .dtb files - uEnv.txt - zImage file > > Oh, BTW, I haven't had to use the "boot switch" since last year. > Insert > SD card and restart device... Boots OS from SD card (might still be > reading > u-Boot info from the eMMC but then transfers over... I admit I'm not > skilled enough with boot systems to know for sure) > I tried to boot the same without touching the S2 button during power up (with the uSD card inside BBB) The BBB started with only 2 LEDs constantly lit (USR0 and USR1) and the other USER LEDs not glowing at all. > -- > Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN > wlf...@ix.netcom.com <javascript:> HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/b4787db8-1951-49e9-a700-d40362ca68cc%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
