[fedora-arm] F21 VFAT boot partition?

[Peter Robinson]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 1:50 AM, Robert Nelson <robertcnelson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Scott M. Jones <scott at aprr.org> wrote:
>>> I have a Beagleboard XM rev B and needed a VFAT boot partition in order
>>> to boot.  Will these be provided for F21 and are they still needed?
>>
>> The VFAT images are no longer provided. It should be possible, like on
>> the OMAP4/am33xx devices, to write the uboot to an offset on the root
>> of the drive, there's about 2mb left free at the beginning of the ARM
>> images to enable this, and get uboot to work. I've looked very briefly
>> at this on my xM and started to read docs to see if there was any
>> difference between the SoCs but I've not got very far as I've had
>> other more pressing things.
>
> RAW mode wasn't introduced till the omap4's bootrom.  However there
> are now patches to boot the beagle/beaglexm (omap34xx/dm3730) from
> extX via u-boot. But, there's not enough sram for both vfat & extX so
> it's a choice you need to make.

Oh interesting, so that means we can put the u-boot/MLO on a ext4
/boot partition (partition 1) and have it work? If not how does this
work?

Peter