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Autoboot from SD

To get the BeagleBoard to autoboot from the SD card, the following commands are needed:

OMAP3 beagleboard.org # setenv bootargs 'console=ttyS2,115200n8 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rw rootwait'
OMAP3 beagleboard.org # set bootcmd 'mmcinit;fatload mmc 0 80300000 uImage;bootm 80300000' ; saveenv
OMAP3 beagleboard.org # printenv

Upon printing the environment, the output should show the updated settings.

OMAP3 beagleboard.org # printenv                                               
filesize=AF13C                                                                 
stdin=serial                                                                   
stdout=serial                                                                  
stderr=serial                                                                  
bootargs=console=ttyS2,115200n8 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rw rootwait                
bootcmd=mmcinit;fatload mmc 0 80300000 uImage;bootm 80300000                   
                                                                               
Environment size: 181/131068 bytes

Reset the board and it should now autoboot from the SD card.

General Notes

Folder name of package cannot contain underscores Package name before revision cannot contain capital letters

Use opkg instead of ipkg to install on BeagleBoard

You have to change permissions of /home/root to 777 so the other computer can insert the new pkg. This has to be done locally on the BeagleBoard (by minicom)

To install Perl on BeagleBoard, bitbake the pre-existing Perl recipe and copy over two ipk files to the rfs: perl_5.8.8-r27.1_armv7a.ipk and libperl5_5.8.8-r27.1_armv7a.ipk. Additional modules can then be installed.

Open minicom with option -w. It turns on text wrapping which is off by default.