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Date:      Tue, 28 Jun 2016 14:01:58 -0600
From:      Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
To:        Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Booting FreeBSD on BeagleBone Black from microSD by default
Message-ID:  <1467144118.72182.77.camel@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAPyFy2AHdog0GzLBDQWeg%2B494yWo73gEJzFBPS_v=Nz3YparUA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 2016-06-28 at 15:45 -0400, Ed Maste wrote:
> On 13 April 2016 at 11:13, Ian Lepore <ian@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



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