[Buildroot] Interested in board support for BeagleV-Ahead

Robert Nelson robertcnelson at gmail.com
Thu Aug 10 20:45:29 UTC 2023


> > Side-note-extra credit.. We are working on distro extlinux support to
> > just boot off microSD using the eMMC's parttion1/2 as a generic
> > 'bootloader'..  We did have one user on our forum, get the "microSD"
> > boto to actually work... once...  Vendor refused to share how to do
> > that, i was amazed user got it to work, but since then it's not
> > booting..  I think we are just going to asume eMMC will be the generic
> > bootloader going forward..
>
> Yeah, that "Kilian" on the BeagleBoard forum is actually me :D
> I am super sorry: I cannot reproduce what I did myself and I also don't know
> so much what is going on. The boot log I posted is really true. I still have
> that exact SD card and today it still booted. I however could not reproduce it
> with another SD card, which is of the same type. Tbh. I have no clue ...

Oh Sweet!

Yeah, your one boot 'showing' it actually worked 'once' is still way
more info than we ever got from the vendor on requesting info on our
goal of booting from external microSD!

I was at the office for my job that day, and didn't have the board in
my grab bag.

Regards.

-- 
Robert Nelson
https://rcn-ee.com/



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