[beagleboard] Beaglebone black: Boot from USB or serial

2014-02-21 Thread terry . barnaby47
We are designing a system based on the TI AM3358 processor and are using a 
Beaglebone black as a development board prior to getting the real hardware.
The real hardware will have eMMC memory but will not have a microSD card 
socket so for a bare metal boot/install we plan to use USB or serial.
We have been trying to do this with our Beaglebone black, but without 
success.
We can boot from our own Linux image on a microSD card by holding down the 
S2 button and powering up fine.
If we remove the microSD card and power up (via a mini USB-B cable plugged 
into the mini USB socket) with S2 pressed the system does not boot, as 
expected, but does not appear to try and boot via USB or serial.
We are using a Linux host system and the command lsusb shows no extra 
devices, we were expecting an Ethernet Gadget device. A minicom (or raw 
program) connection to the serial port (UART0) doesn't show any output, we 
were expecting an ASIC id (whatever that looks like).
Any idea why this is not working ?

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[beagleboard] Beaglebone Black: Boot from USB or serial

2014-02-21 Thread terry . barnaby47
We are developing a board based on the TI AM3358 processor and we are using 
the Beaglebone Black as a development test platform prior to the real 
hardware becoming available.
Our system will have eMMC memory but no microSD card so we intend to do a 
boot/install via the USB or serial port.
We are testing this out using the Beaglebone Black but it is not working.
We can boot our own Linux from the microSD card by powering up with the S2 
boot button pressed fine.
However if we power up (via a USB-B cable) without a microSD card and the 
S2 boot button pressed the BBB does not seem to try and boot via the USB or 
serial.
Our host is Linux and a lsusb shows no new devices (We were expecting an 
Ethernet gadget device). Minicom or a raw serial port program connected to 
UART0 shows no ASIC id (what ever that is) being sent.
Any ideas ?

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