BeagleBone Black USB port Boot

[RobertCNelson]

@dzhou

I saw there is setup_sdcard.sh, which creates 2 partitions: (ID.txt MLO, and u-boot.img), and the other is NTFS. My question is for tftp (or Usb client port boot), it needs u-boot.bin, etc. I don’t see yhr u-boot.bin is created in the deploy folder. How to create the bin and other necessary for tftp booting?

setup_sdcard.sh is highly configurable, it supports many boards with varying u-boot configurations. Thus u-boot is not shipped, but instead downloaded based on the specific board/configuration.

There is a setup_sdcard.sh option to allow you to specify a local version, which you can specify your self. (run with --help)

Debian: Getting Started with the BeagleBone Black

USB boot requires a very specific u-boot configuration, a version that i currently do not build.

@dzhou

You have patch to create setup_usb.sh from setup_sdcard.sh. I “was hesitated” to create such setup_usb.sh. Because anything wrong in the script will give me much trouble. And also, I found the line number and code lines in the patch file don’t match. Maybe there is a version issue of the files I downloaded. I am not sure do you have a setup_usb.sh and tested working?

Sorry, i don’t recognize any “setup_usb.sh” script in my personal github account, can you clarify.

Regards,