Beagleboard:U-boot partitioning layout 2.0

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Goal: to create a more distro friendly default bootloader installed on the BeagleBone Black eMMC.

Based on: https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/DeviceTreeConsolidation

Starting with u-boot: v2014.07/v2014.10 this will be default:

BeagleBone/BeagleBone Black:

https://github.com/RobertCNelson/Bootloader-Builder/blob/master/patches/v2014.10/0001-am335x_evm-uEnv.txt-bootz-n-fixes.patch

BeagleBoard:

https://github.com/RobertCNelson/Bootloader-Builder/blob/master/patches/v2014.10/0001-omap3_beagle-uEnv.txt-bootz-n-fixes.patch

PandaBoard:

https://github.com/RobertCNelson/Bootloader-Builder/blob/master/patches/v2014.10/0001-omap4_common-uEnv.txt-bootz-n-fixes.patch

omap5_uevm:

https://github.com/RobertCNelson/Bootloader-Builder/blob/master/patches/v2014.10/0001-omap5_common-uEnv.txt-bootz-n-fixes.patch

Partition layout

Boot Partition (omap3)

Usually Partition 1, for bootrom's that can only read fat partitions.

xMb fat16 (unmounted usually shared as a usb gadget)
/MLO (MLO might be hidden)
/u-boot.img (u-boot.img might be thrown into ext4)
/uEnv.txt (priority 1) (Optional)
/boot.scr (priority 2) (Optional, For: debian-installer: flash-kernel)
/boot/boot.scr (priority 3) (Optional, For: debian-installer: flash-kernel)

Boot Partition (omap4+ (am335x))

MLO/u-boot: dd'ed to drive:

dd if=MLO of=/dev/sdX count=1 seek=1 conv=notrunc bs=128k
dd if=u-boot.img of=/dev/sdX count=2 seek=1 conv=notrunc bs=384k

Boot:

xMb fat16/ext2 (unmounted usually shared as a usb gadget)
/uEnv.txt (priority 1) (Optional)
/boot.scr (priority 2) (Optional, For: debian-installer: flash-kernel)
/boot/boot.scr (priority 3) (Optional, For: debian-installer: flash-kernel)

Rootfs Partition

This can be partition 1 -> 7

rootfs: / (ext2/ext3/ext4) (btrfs not supported, as we need u-boot support first)
/boot/uEnv.txt (priority 4)
/boot/vmlinuz-$(uname -r)
/boot/initrd.img-$(uname -r) (optional, but needed for uuid cases)
/boot/dtbs/$(uname -r)/*.dtb (or one of the 7 locations below)

u-boot dtb search order

(1) Mainline: /boot/dtbs/$(uname -r)/*.dtb
(2) Debian: /usr/lib/linux-image-$(uname -r)/*.dtb
(3) Ubuntu: /lib/firmware/$(uname -r)/device-tree/*.dtb
(4) Fedora: /boot/dtb-$(uname -r)/*.dtb
(5) archlinux: /boot/dtbs/*.dtb
(6) openSUSE: /boot/dtb/*.dtb
(7) OpenEmbedded: /boot/*.dtb

uEnv.txt Boot Partition /uEnv.txt

set "uenvcmd" and you have full control

nfs support

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt

set "client_ip" and nfsboot will be ran

Other Defaults:

server_ip=192.168.1.100
gw_ip=192.168.1.1
netmask=255.255.255.0
hostname=
device=eth0
autoconf=off
root_dir=/home/userid/targetNFS
nfs_options=,vers=3
nfsrootfstype=ext4 rootwait fixrtc

uEnv.txt Rootfs Partition /boot/uEnv.txt

Simple:

uname_r = $(uname -r)

Optional:

dtb = force "other" *.dtb file (Just the file name "device.dtb" no path...)
cmdline = stuff passed to command line "quiet"
uuid = (needs initrd.img-$(uname -r) in most cases)
rootfstype = default(ext4)
optargs = default(blank)

Kernel Updates

When installing kernel updates, /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-uenv_txt will update /boot/uEnv.txt

https://github.com/RobertCNelson/omap-image-builder/blob/master/target/other/zz-uenv_txt

Example:

sudo apt-get install linux-image-3.8.13-bone60
<...>
Setting up linux-image-3.8.13-bone60 (1wheezy) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.8.13-bone60
zz-uenv_txt: Updating /boot/uEnv.txt [uname_r=3.8.13-bone60]

Example Image

wget https://rcn-ee.net/deb/testing/2014-09-04/console/bone-debian-7.6-console-armhf-2014-09-04-2gb.img.xz
md5sum: e034330fc40de0ceee46c0c986eb9755