[fedora-arm] install to 4GB eMMC on the Rev C Beaglebone Black?

[Adam Goode]

This is the standard F-20 release, with its standard uboot.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/F20/Installation#For_the_BeagleBone_Black

Sounds like F-21 improves this? Sounds good.


Thanks,

Adam


On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 6:18 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 5:11 AM, Adam Goode <adam at spicenitz.org> wrote:
> > Thanks. I got it working via an mSD card, then transferring over.
> >
> > The one wrinkle is that I needed to edit a-b-c.d/19-config-adds to add
> 1:3
> > 1:2 1:1 to u_devpart to get the thing booting. Maybe this is a worthwhile
> > change to make to a-b-c?
>
> What Fedora and uboot release? With extlinux.conf support that
> shouldn't matter I don't believe.
>
> Peter
>
> > On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 6:30 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Adam,
> >>
> >> > The instructions for Fedora for BBB all suggest to install to an SD
> >> > card. Is
> >> > it possible to install to the eMMC and not need an SD card? Any ideas?
> >>
> >> There's two possible ways of doing this.
> >>
> >> The first is to use a SD card like the standard instructions to get a
> >> system running not off the eMMC but have a copy of the image on the sd
> >> card and basically repeat it over onto the MMC, remove the sd card and
> >> reboot. I've done that with the 2gb model but it's not ideal as you do
> >> need an initial mSD card.
> >>
> >> The second way, which is untested but on my list of to look at (I was
> >> actually investigating the uboot side of things over the weekend) is
> >> to use the USB DFU functionality of the usb-otg port. AFAICT all the
> >> bits are there on the uboot side, and there's dfu-util package but the
> >> documentation I've managed to find is, at best, poor and I've not had
> >> time to play and work out all the bits, like how to update the uboot
> >> too.
> >>
> >> Peter
> >
> >
>
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