Hi, I've seen some docs on how to build a custom kernel and so far it appears to have cross-compiled correctly. http://elinux.org/Building_BBB_Kernel http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBone_Black_Serial
Now, in order to see the U-boot prompt, it says I should connect the serial cable to my PC. I currently don't have a FTDI cable and buying one is going to be a slow, bureaucratic process (company policies, employment status as a contractor, blah blah blah). I was wondering if it is really needed - I have a micro-HDMI and a USB keyboard, I can access the Linux console with them. Can they be used to access the U-boot prompt and command line? (Sorry if it sounds like a dumb question but I'd never heard of U-boot before. I've worked with other similar devices but they had an Intel processor and chipset, was able to access EFI and GRUB via HDMI). The BBB also had a mini-USB cable included. By plugging it to my PC with it I can see the BBB as a storage device and it shows up the first partition of eMMC (docs, drivers, etc). But it doesn't appear to expose a serial port and so I don't think I can use it to see the boot prompt...is that correct? Thanks. -- 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/3a7e408e-2533-41a9-892b-cd4b7fe66c6b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
