Re: netbooting a beaglebone

[Matt Thomas <matt%3am-software.com@localhost>]

On Jun 22, 2014, at 11:27 AM, Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> 
wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 11:05:28AM -0700, Matt Thomas wrote:
>> 
>> On Jun 21, 2014, at 3:25 AM, Manuel Bouyer 
>> <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> thanks for the replies. For the record here's how I netboot my beaglebones
>>> (both white and black):
>>> 
>>> In uEnv.txt:
>>> optargs=run_hardware_tests quiet
>>> 
>>> serverip=10.0.0.1
>>> ipaddr=10.0.0.9
>>> 
>>> (no idea if the optargs line is needed, or if it's a leftover from the linux
>>> setup).
>>> then, at the uboot prompt:
>>> tftpboot 0x80300000 netbsd.bin; go 0x80300000
>> 
>> use netbsd.ub instead;
>> then you can do 
>> 
>> tftp ; bootm
> 
> Does it bring in extra functionalities ?

Depends.  netbsd.gz.ub is usually faster to load since it's compressed.
For u-boot, we really recommend using the .ub