Debian 4GB EMMC LXQT flasher image for Beaglebone Black

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Where can I find this image? If it is not available how can it be generated?

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Right there, switched to xfce in bullseye.

Regards,

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I installed bone-eMMC-flasher-debian-10.13-lxqt-armhf-2023-05-03-4gb.img.xz on my Beaglebone Black which leaves little space left for file storage which flashed the eMMC with this version. Using an 8GB microSD card I followed the manual procedure described in elinux.org/Beagleboard: Expanding_File_System_Partition_On_A_microSD and get the error after running resize2fs /dev/mmcblk0p1: bad magic number in super block while trying to open /dev/mmcblk0p1. Couldn’t find valid super block. The automated way worked to create a partition /dev/mmcblk1p1 of size 3.6G type Linux which is on the eMMC not the microSD card. What to do?

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Hello,

I know w/ the updated images, a reboot is required for the resize to take place on auto.

Seth

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The automated way assumes the Beaglebone Black boots from the micro SD card. I want to add the micro SD card to the file system as extra storage and boot from the previously flashed eMMC.

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Oh.

So, you need to flash the a SD Card w/ the eMMC image and then use the SD Card as extra storage. Oh and okay, I was not even sure this was possible until you brought it up.

Okay…just a little background here.

  1. I use the BBB as a learning platform to handle the am335x and specific peripherals. Good at it, me? No but I try still to this day to make it so I can manage more and more.
  2. I have not heard of this effort taking place to this day.
  3. I have never used the BBB in this manner nor have I even thought it was possible.
    a. Maybe a USB Stick could solve some space issues?
    b. I cannot help w/ this concern for now.
    c. I really thought you just needed the resizing of the SD Card and that is done via a script during the first reboot or a second boot.

I keep getting too confused. If you figure it out, yes! I would like to know the answer too…

But, and this is from my personal experience, I have not been able to dual boot the eMMC w/ extra storage as can be used by a SD Card.

Seth

P.S. I mistook what you said for not understanding the newer boot into a fresh image w/ rebooting to resize the empty partition. This is my mistake. I am sorry. Maybe others will help out but I am sure only one boot medium per board (for now).

There used to be a way to use u-boot to handle eMMC and SD Card images but the access to the SD Card while booting from the eMMC was issue prone. I may research it more to figure it out but something w/ a dmesg or journalctl -xe command may give more light to this issue. Oh!

I found something:

This may be a portal to something but it could be nothing. Are you building your own images? Yocto!

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I have actually done this last year on a Beaglebone Black and a Beaglebone Black wireless board following the manual procedure shown in Beagleboard:Expanding File System Partition On A microSD - eLinux.org using Debian 9.9. After the eMMC has already been flashed using another microSD card and has been rebooted without that card a new microSD card is inserted and the procedure is performed. Now using Debian 9.9 and 10.13 I get this error after resize2fs /dev/mmcblk0p1: bad magic number in super block while trying to open /dev/mmcblk0p1. Couldn’t find valid filesystem super block. Perhaps I forgot something from last year.

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Newer image will auto resize on first bootup, that error smells like the same message it reports when it was already resized and nothing for it to do.

Regards,