Thanks Vagrant, Il go through this and report anything not listed here....
Regards On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 10:19 PM, Vagrant Cascadian <vagr...@debian.org> wrote: > On 2015-04-27, Nigel Sollars wrote: > > I was wondering if someone could give the steps of installing Jessie > from a > > netinstall to a micro sd card ( say for a BeagleBone Black ) .. then when > > the install is complete, what would be the requirements to push that to > > the emmc flash?. > > Unfortunately, USB support on the BeagleBone Black won't work with > Debian's kernel, but if you don't need USB... > > You should be able to put debian-installer on the SD card, and then > install directly to the eMMC: > > > http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/installer-armhf/current/images/hd-media/SD-card-images/README.concatenateable_images > > http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/installer-armhf/current/images/hd-media/SD-card-images/ > > Or the netboot images: > > > http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/installer-armhf/current/images/netboot/SD-card-images/README.concatenateable_images > > http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/installer-armhf/current/images/netboot/SD-card-images/ > > > You'll need the workarounds mentioned here, and a USB-TTL serial cable > to get at the u-boot serial console: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=782574#20 > > U-Boot# setenv devtype mmc > U-Boot# setenv devnum 0 > U-Boot# setenv bootpart 1 > U-Boot# setenv console "ttyO0,115200n8" > U-Boot# setenv bootargs "${bootargs} console=${console}" > > > You also may have to manually set bootargs on first boot, and then edit > /etc/default/flash-kernel from the booted system to always include the > console. > > You might need to press the "boot" button to get it to boot off the SD > rather than the eMMC. > > Support for the BBB in Debian is a little rough around the edges... > > Good luck! > > > live well, > vagrant > -- “Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.” Alan Turing
