Booting FreeBSD on BeagleBone Black from microSD by default

[Daniel Braniss]

> On 29 Jun 2016, at 07:14, Tim Kientzle <tim at kientzle.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Jun 28, 2016, at 12:45 PM, Ed Maste <emaste at FreeBSD.org> 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)?
> 
> If I remember correctly, the uboot provided on the stock eMMC image was configured to see if the SD card had a Linux kernel and load the kernel from that if it was there.  If the SD did not have a Linux kernel, it would fall back to eMMC.
> 
> Of course, if you’re willing to hold the boot switch, you can boot from SD without changing the eMMC.
> 


last time I did this, and as far as I remember, you had to hold the boot switch only once,
after that every reboot was from the sd card.

danny

> Tim
> 
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