Booting NetBSD on the BeagleBone Black

["Sevan / Venture37" <venture37%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hello,
The BeagleBone Black firmware looks for relevant files to boot the
system on the partition marked active of each storage medium (onboard
MMC or SD card whichever sequence).

To boot NetBSD on there
1) fetch, uncompress and write
evbarm-earmv7hf/binary/gzimg/armv7.img.gz to sd card

2) mark the DOS partition as active (fdisk -a if you have a system
running NetBSD)

3) copy a build of u-boot & respective MLO file to DOS partition (MLO
file is generated during the u-boot build process if you're rolling
your own)

4) Boot

I was wondering if it would be possible to have mark the DOS partition
on the images we generated as active by default so that there's one
step less to take.
Write image to sd & copy u-boot files to dos partition, boot.


Sevan