On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 12:19 PM, Tim M <timlorimurta...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Greg, > > I downloaded this Ubuntu image (not a Debian image) and installed it on my > microSD: >> >> >> https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/2017-07-14/microsd/bone-ubuntu-16.04.2-console-armhf-2017-07-14-2gb.img.xz > > > Are you saying that if I uncomment that line in /boot/uEnv.txt and reboot, > the image I just copied to the microSD will be copied to eMMC? > I assume that after flashing the eMMC, I must comment that line again to > avoid flashing the eMMC on every boot. > Is it necessary to have the same image in both eMMC and microSD to support > automatic booting from microSD? > I assume I must flash the 2GB image to eMMC, before I resize the microSD > partition to 8GB (the 8GB image won't fit in eMMC). > > My goal is to boot from an 8GB microSD everytime, not eMMC. I really don't > care what's in eMMC, I want to reliably boot from microSD.
so just dd /dev/zero into the eMMC.. > > To confuse matters further, I noticed that there is also a "flasher" image > available: >> >> >> https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/2017-07-14/flasher/BBB-eMMC-flasher-ubuntu-16.04.2-console-armhf-2017-07-14-2gb.img.xz > > > What's the difference between the "microSD" and "flasher" images? Those are explained here: http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu Regards, -- Robert Nelson https://rcn-ee.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/CAOCHtYhJwO-pUSnyo5cn%3DqY6z-UgczrX-V3Dw5VTdYhzOFf7NA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
