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Does this work with a BBB A5C?

Open wicadmin opened this issue 7 years ago • 11 comments

Hi, I have an A5C BBB. Would this script work to put the right (2 GB) Debian OS on the eMMC?

https://github.com/RobertCNelson/boot-scripts/blob/master/tools/eMMC/init-eMMC-flasher-v3.sh

wicadmin avatar Feb 06 '18 14:02 wicadmin

@2devnull yes, but remember it has to be a 1GB/2GB image, not the 4GB..

Regards,

RobertCNelson avatar Feb 06 '18 15:02 RobertCNelson

Hmm, I'll have to take a look at how to do this. On the surface, I thought this script may be doing it all based on HW. Is there any more current update than Wheezy for 2GB eMMC?

wicadmin avatar Feb 06 '18 16:02 wicadmin

It doesn't care about the hardware or eMMC size.. If you try to flash a 4GB image to the 2GB eMMC, it'll still try it's hardest, but fail..

Regards,

RobertCNelson avatar Feb 06 '18 16:02 RobertCNelson

Yes:

from: https://beagleboard.org/latest-images

Here's all the "2018-01-28" Stretch variants:

https://rcn-ee.net/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2018-01-28/

Here's all the "2018-02-01" Jessie variants:

https://rcn-ee.net/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2018-02-01/

Regards,

RobertCNelson avatar Feb 06 '18 16:02 RobertCNelson

ok, great....so if I understand how to do this correctly, these are the only steps I need to follow?

Steps

wicadmin avatar Feb 06 '18 16:02 wicadmin

Well, that's what i wrote..

RobertCNelson avatar Feb 06 '18 17:02 RobertCNelson

great...If I just want a headless server that I can SSH into, would this image be sufficient? bone-debian-9.3-console-armhf-2018-01-28-1gb.img.xz

wicadmin avatar Feb 06 '18 17:02 wicadmin

sure

RobertCNelson avatar Feb 06 '18 17:02 RobertCNelson

alright, I was not sure if it had to state "flasher" in its name to work.

Thank you. I appreciate your help in sorting this through.

wicadmin avatar Feb 06 '18 17:02 wicadmin

You can modify it to flash the eMMC by fallowing:

https://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#Flashing_eMMC

Regards,

RobertCNelson avatar Feb 06 '18 17:02 RobertCNelson

k..got it. Will give it a whirl.

wicadmin avatar Feb 06 '18 17:02 wicadmin