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Date:      Wed, 13 Apr 2016 09:13:39 -0600
From:      Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
To:        Hal Murray <hmurray@megapathdsl.net>
Cc:        freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Booting FreeBSD on BeagleBone Black from microSD by default
Message-ID:  <1460560419.52955.23.camel@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20160413095534.B48EA406057@ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net>
References:  <20160413095534.B48EA406057@ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net>

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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).

The whole concept of doing this by manipulating the active flag never
occurred to me until you asked the question on the mailing list.  (I
zeroed out my eMMC long ago, before I learned about the ROM boot code
checking the active flag.)

-- Ian



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