how to flash debian image in the sd card to emmc in beaglebone black industrial

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how to flash debian image in the sd card to emmc in beaglebone black industrial

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Hello,

Depending on your image and kernelā€¦

  1. Go to uEnv.txt in /boot/ and change the file to suit booting from eMMC instead.
  2. If you are using a newer image and kernel, like the 5.10.x-ti- kernels, try to use enable-beagle-flasher.

Seth

P.S. If that does not work, if either one or two from above does not work, please reply with the output of these two commands:

cat /etc/dogtag

andā€¦

uname -a

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Very helpful. Thanks for sharing .

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1)uname -a 5.10
2)BeagleBoard.org Debian Bullseye IoT Image 2023-09-02

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how to do this " 1. If you are using a newer image and kernel, like the 5.10.x-ti- kernels, try to use enable-beagle-flasher."

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If you want or need to flash the micro SD Card image to the eMMC on the BBB, you can use that script that someone put together. I think @RobertCNelson threw it together for people to flash their eMMC from micro SD Card on the BBB (am335x supported SoC/SiP board).

Anyway, I think your questions is HOW to use it.

  1. tryā€¦
    a. enable-beagle-flasher on the command line
  2. If that does not workā€¦
    b. sudo enable-beagle-flasher on the command line
  3. If that does not workā€¦
    c. sudo apt install beagle-flasher

andā€¦

From what I can tell, the enable-beagle-flasher command works on a reboot into the system. You might also try:

beagle-flasher as a command to just copy the data from disk to eMMC.

I just picked this up from DigiKeyā€¦


When Debian 11.x (Bullseye) came out, i took some time to re-write the flasherā€™sā€¦ This was back ported to 20.04, and should be pre-installed on your imageā€¦

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ dpkg --list | grep bb-beagle-flasher
ii  bb-beagle-flasher                          1.20220202.3-0~focal+20220301        armhf        beagleboard.org beagle-flasher
There are two commandsā€¦

sudo enable-beagle-flasher
ā€œenable-beagle-flasherā€ sets up the media to flash the ā€˜otherā€™ media on the next reboot.

So, if you boot from microSD, that script would enable the microSD to flash the eMMC on the next boot.

The other:

sudo beagle-flasher
This is standalone and just copies the media over to the other mediaā€¦

So, if you booted from microSD, it would directly copy that over to the eMMCā€¦ Itā€™s not 100% safe, like the other, as you are running directly from it, but itā€™s good enough for most users. (if you have xorg/etc use the otherā€¦)ā€¦

So if your already running from the eMMC, iā€™d stick in a blank microSD and run:

sudo beagle-flasher
Once done, iā€™d then bootup ā€˜onceā€™ with the microSD and run:

sudo enable-beagle-flasher
sudo systemctl poweroff
Now that microSD is setup for auto-flashing every board booted with itā€¦

Regards,

That may be of help. That bit of info can be found here:

I am not even sure if those ideas are around stillā€¦ Be careful!

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from: Debian 11.x (Bullseye) - Monthly Snapshot - 2023-10-07

eMMC Flasher

Copy board specific configuration files, example:

sudo enable-beagle-flasher
sudo reboot

Regards,

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I cannot say that it is that easy because that is not who I am right nowā€¦

Easy! Thank you, sir.

Seth

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i can only boot from sd card,can i execute ā€œenable-beagle-flasherā€ this command ?

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Thanks it works
I booted from the SD card after downloading and installing the Debian image from beaglebone site, and then I added the following command ā€œsudo beagle-flasherā€ to it.

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sudo enable-flasher worked for 5.10 but now i want to flash 4.19 from sd card to emmc,i tried this but it shows error message ā€œbeagle-flasher:command not foundā€

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if the debian image is 4.19 ,how to flash it?