You could always get a Rasberry Pi to read the BB uSD.
On Thursday, October 31, 2019, Michael B <m...@indiecraft.com> wrote: > I know about that. It doesn't work. > Not mine for sure at least with this version of OSX and the latest > VirtualBox. > > Thanks again all for help. > > > > On Thursday, October 31, 2019 at 5:35:20 PM UTC-4, jonnymo wrote: >> >> You just need to assign the USB device to the Virtual Box VM; the native >> OS does not need to be able to read the filesystem. Also, you could use >> ext4fuse on you Mac to mount a ext filesystem. Or just Bootcamp your Mac >> with Linux. However, all of this is why I no longer use Mac systems. >> >> On Thursday, October 31, 2019, Michael B <mi...@indiecraft.com> wrote: >> >>> Thanks Dennie. >>> I think that is getting me closer. I can now mount the SD on my Mac. >>> FYI to anyone reading this for similar help: If the Mac doesn't see the >>> ext4 partition a VirtualBox VM will not work as it doesn't connect to the >>> VM at all. >>> >>> I can now see and edit the uEnv.txt file. >>> I'm not up and running yet but that gives me some more to play with. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 12:00:32 PM UTC-4, Dennis Bieber wrote: >>>> >>>> On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 04:05:01 -0700 (PDT), in >>>> gmane.comp.hardware.beagleboard.user Michael B >>>> <mike-NEI+xi/g6jcwd6...@public.gmane.org> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >- I cannot read or write to the SD card on my computer after >>>> transferring >>>> >the image to the SD card. It's in a format the computer does not like >>>> (osx >>>> >catalina). Therefore, I do not know how to turn off the flash option >>>> in >>>> >/boot/... to stop it from trying to reflash. >>>> >>>> https://www.maketecheasier.com/mount-access-ext4-partition-mac/ >>>> >>>> If you've written a NON-flasher image on the SD card, and it >>>> still >>>> tries to run the flasher, you've got a strange eMMC configuration. Try >>>> holding down the boot-select button to force the card to load u-Boot >>>> from >>>> SD card (I believe for some years now u-Boot on eMMC is configured to >>>> detect an SD card and then transfer to it to complete booting, but that >>>> implies it is not using the SD card u-Boot) >>>> >>>> If the boot-select with a non-flasher image works, you should >>>> be able >>>> to mount the eMMC and explore it for incorrect configuration files. Or >>>> zero >>>> it out so it can't boot from eMMC (and maybe eventually reflash it with >>>> a >>>> known working image -- convert the working SD card to flasher). >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Dennis L Bieber >>>> >>>> -- >>> 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 beagl...@googlegroups.com. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ms >>> gid/beagleboard/3337ab28-8663-4fac-8640-df3b1991b1b6%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/3337ab28-8663-4fac-8640-df3b1991b1b6%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- > 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/12ecdfd4-71aa-4c5b-985c-3bfc13f813cb%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/12ecdfd4-71aa-4c5b-985c-3bfc13f813cb%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CAG99bkribucJb%3DqrKVYwjac%3DHGzcRtAvGRUKhvZDAj66HhQdiQ%40mail.gmail.com.
