any limit to the size of the micro SD card used with Beagle Bone?

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Is there any limit to the size of the SD card or file system partitions on the beagle bone (or any other beagle board)?

Eric

2

8 Gig is the size limit for an SD card on the CraneBoard. I believe
that the BeagleBoard has the same restriction. When I try to boot a 16
Gig SD card on the CraneBoard, it reports unreadable sectors while
booting. 8 Gig works perfectly though.

3

What’s the reason for the size limit?

Eric

4

I can only surmise that the crappy card reader on the CraneBoard is
missing some lines or that the embedded load created on Narcissus can
only handle a certain number of cylinders (remember that when you FDISK
an SD-Card, you are required to make it 255 heads, 63 sectors/track in
order for it to boot). The BeagleBoard may be different from the
CraneBoard, but my experience with a 16 gig and 32 gig SDHC card was
that the thing would read MLO, u-boot.bin etc but screw up as soon as it
tried to read the Linux ext3 partition.

Also remember that the BeagleBoard's and CraneBoard's video output is
restricted to 1400x1050 resolution because of the TI Sitara chipset
restriction

5

lower side support is 1GB i am using .

6

I use a 16GB microSD card with Ubuntu 11.10.
The only problem I had yesterday was with reboot/reset, no output on terminal nor did it boot as I couldn't ssh to it.
Tried for over an hour then it booted, eth0 came up with the IP address assigned via dhcp, R229 had been removed when first recommended and everything was normal.

This time only /dev/ttyUSB0 showed, before both ttyUSB0 and 1 were there and serial console was available using ttyUSB1.
Serial console is still running on 0, now /dev shows no ttyUSB devices.
root@bone:~# ls /dev/ttyUSB*
ls: cannot access /dev/ttyUSB*: No such file or directory
root@bone:~#
root@bone:~# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05e3:0608 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB-2.0 4-Port HUB
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 0c76:1607 JMTek, LLC. audio controller
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 05e3:0608 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB-2.0 4-Port HUB
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 041e:3040 Creative Technology, Ltd SoundBlaster Live! 24-bit External SB0490

# lsmod
Module Size Used by
bnep 9774 2
rfcomm 32861 0
bluetooth 144883 10 bnep,rfcomm
rfkill 17026 2 bluetooth
lp 7909 0
parport 38164 1 lp
snd_usb_audio 89801 0
snd_hwdep 5575 1 snd_usb_audio
snd_usbmidi_lib 16926 1 snd_usb_audio
usbhid 34120 0

root@bone:~# modprobe ftdi_sio
root@bone:~# l /dev/ttyUSB*
ls: cannot access /dev/ttyUSB*: No such file or directory
root@bone:~#

May be it needs a reboot as a new kernel came with the latest upgrade.
# ls /lib/modules/
3.1.0-psp3 3.1.6-x6

The system is going down for reboot NOW!
  * Stopping web server apache2 apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName
  ... waiting ... [ OK ]
Checking for running unattended-upgrades:
  * Stopping bluetooth [ OK ]
  * Asking all remaining processes to terminate... [ OK ]
  * All processes ended within 1 seconds.... [ OK ]
modem-manager[522]: <info> Caught signal 15, shutting down...

  * Deconfiguring network interfaces... [146350.508540] INFO: rcu_sched_state detected stall on CPU 0 (t=6000 jiffies)

It stalled there and I had to use RESET key. It rebooted on the original 3.1.0-psp3 kernel and is up using ttyUSB0.
root@bone:~# l /dev/ttyUSB*
ls: cannot access /dev/ttyUSB*: No such file or directory
root@bone:~#
Regards
Sid.

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I got the same with a 32GB card on the XM but both the XM and BeagleBone are using 16GB Class 4 cards.
Regards
Sid.