Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 09:42:48 -0600 From: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> To: Mike Brown <mike@skew.org>, freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD on BeagleBone Black from microSD by default Message-ID: <1461685368.1191.67.camel@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20160426084344.GA29063@chilled.skew.org> References: <20160426084344.GA29063@chilled.skew.org>
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On Tue, 2016-04-26 at 02:43 -0600, Mike Brown wrote: > When I was looking to do this, I was told on IRC to just rename the > MLO file: > > mkdir /emmc.root > mount -t msdosfs /dev/mmcsd1s1 /emmc.root > cd /emmc.root && mv MLO MLO.old > > Once MLO is renamed, /dev/mmcsd1s2 is then available for whatever you > want. I > use it for swap. > > Is there any advantage to using the gpart method instead of renaming > MLO? The only advantage is that it leaves everything else on the emmc intact. If you wanted to boot into linux all you'd need to do is turn the active flag back on and reboot. If you're sure you never want to use linux again, you can just repartition / reformat the emmc and use it for whatever you want. -- Ian
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