Re: How to use the beagleboard.img.gz on a BeagleBone Black

[Jared McNeill <jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>]

Yeah. If you put MLO and U-Boot on the SD card, you can hold the boot 
button when you power it on to boot from microSD instead of eMMC.

On Sat, 27 Jun 2015, Sevan / Venture37 wrote:

> On 27/06/2015 13:10, Jared McNeill wrote:
> > For BeagleBone Black, MLO and U-Boot is on the eMMC out of the box and
> > beagleboard.img (7.0) / armv7.img (-current) is supposed to work as-is.
> >
> > The supplied uEnv.txt does a few things -- first, it depends on U-Boot
> > to read it, run the "loaduimage" command, and it must have
> > "board=am335x" in the environment.
> >
> > If you get a U-Boot prompt, try interrupting the countdown and running
> > the following commands:
> >
> >    fatload mmc 0 82000000 bbone.ub
> >    bootm 82000000 root=ld0a
>
> ah, so if you've wiped the eMMC because you were previously running another 
> OS there, you're not going to get far with beagleboard.img, right?
>
>
> Sevan