Re: [beagleboard] Re: Bulk flashing of BBB eMMC

> > *For workshops and my cape tester setup, I've been trying to get a* > * BeagleBone Black setup as a BBBlfs host and use udev rules to trigger* > * flashing when a BeagleBone is attached. Just as I was starting to test* > * it, I walked up with a big static charge and zapped my cape tester* > *

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Bulk flashing of BBB eMMC

As Robert mentioned, I've also been using the BBBlfs project, which provides a USB-based bootloader, to load a kernel plus userspace where the eMMC looks like a USB flash drive. Usability across operating systems have kept us from pushing BBBlfs out as the default for end users where usability and

[beagleboard] Re: Bulk flashing of BBB eMMC

Hello Lee, my process is that I have a running Linux on a bootable SD card. As a autostart service, there is a scripted executed, which performs 1) partitioning of the eMMC card 2) copy u-boot.bin and MLO to the first sectors of the eMMC 3) format the 1st (and only) partition with ext4 file

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Bulk flashing of BBB eMMC

One other option not mentioned. Which is "burning" from USB. Pretty much, all methods requires an sdcard, period. So, just using a large sdcard, with a small boot / rootfs, and a larger partition mounted, where every with all the data needed to be "burned" to eMMC. Thats all that's needed. So

[beagleboard] Re: Bulk flashing of BBB eMMC

Thanks for all of your experiences. Interesting you use the SD in production. That is similar to what I am doing now. Günter, that is much quicker than the 5 minutes I have it down to at the moment so may invest some time in that process. Lee On Monday, December 7, 2015 at 2:56:56 PM UTC,

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Bulk flashing of BBB eMMC

Wow that is a sizeable difference, I will create some new SD cards later to speed things up! :-) On Monday, December 7, 2015 at 4:07:57 PM UTC, RobertCNelson wrote: > > > > On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 9:57 AM, William Hermans > wrote: > >> I should also add, that I tested USB

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Bulk flashing of BBB eMMC

On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 9:57 AM, William Hermans wrote: > I should also add, that I tested USB read / write speeds a couple years > ago. Reads were actually slower than NFS, but write were around 20MB/s. > > Anyway, we're talking ancient 3.8.x, so perhaps with the newer 4.1.x >

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Bulk flashing of BBB eMMC

I should also add, that I tested USB read / write speeds a couple years ago. Reads were actually slower than NFS, but write were around 20MB/s. Anyway, we're talking ancient 3.8.x, so perhaps with the newer 4.1.x kernels that's been improved ? On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 8:55 AM, Lee Armstrong

Re: [beagleboard] Re: Bulk flashing of BBB eMMC

Yeah thanks William, I was hoping there was a serial method but thinking that through I think it would be slower than an SD card! On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 3:53 PM, William Hermans wrote: > One other option not mentioned. Which is "burning" from USB. > Pretty much, all methods