Booting FreeBSD on BeagleBone Black from microSD by default

[Ian Lepore]

On Tue, 2016-06-28 at 15:45 -0400, Ed Maste wrote:
> On 13 April 2016 at 11:13, Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2016-04-13 at 02:55 -0700, Hal Murray wrote:
> > > >  gpart unset -a active -i 1 mmcsd1
> > > 
> > > Many thanks.  That's just what I was looking for.
> > > 
> > > It would make a good addition to the wiki.
> > 
> > Oh, that's a good idea (so I did it).
> 
> On a related note, do you know if it's possible for the stock uboot
> on
> the eMMC to chain-load a new uboot from the SD card somehow (in order
> to avoid needing to make any change to the eMMC image)?

Yep, that can work, at least it did when I tried it a couple years ago
(u-boot has changed since then).  The u-boot on the sdcard would
probably have to be compiled without the SPL part.

-- Ian