Boot from SD if SD-Card is present - Beaglebone Black

[Konstantin Kletschke]

On Thu, May 05, 2022 at 10:25:07AM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote:

> Is this a DOS partition table or GPT on this card?
> I assume it's a DOS partition table in which case you should have a
> variable mmc1.nt_signature. Set this to some arbitrary 32bit value.
> Several partitioning tools set this automatically, but not all it seems.

I investigated from running system:

/dev/mmcblk1p3: LABEL="rootfs.1" UUID="6bd1a1f7-f1cb-4121-b1e1-4abe41aa05e6" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/mmcblk1p1: SEC_TYPE="msdos" UUID="ACC9-583C" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/mmcblk1p4: UUID="348c5617-7055-44f9-a658-562d8bb299a1" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="xfs"
/dev/mmcblk1p2: UUID="e15c856f-aa7f-46b2-9f2e-58672eaaeca5" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/mmcblk0p2: UUID="f4c88afd-2420-4d50-8672-9ed4cd2d3ff9" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="eaabcc21-02"
/dev/mmcblk0p1: SEC_TYPE="msdos" UUID="CBEC-9FB6" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="eaabcc21-01"

You mean this PARTUUID stuff, right? Interestingly the external SD-Card
has something like this. So I tested bootloaderspec booting from there:

barebox at TI AM335x BeagleBone black:/ mount mmc0.1
ext4 ext40: EXT2 rev 1, inode_size 256, descriptor size 64
mounted /dev/mmc0.1 on /mnt/mmc0.1
barebox at TI AM335x BeagleBone black:/ devinfo ext40
Driver: ext4
Bus: fs
Parent: mmc0
Parameters:
  linux.bootargs: root=PARTUUID=eaabcc21-02 (type: string)
barebox at TI AM335x BeagleBone black:/ boot mmc0.1
Booting entry 'BeagleBone Black - Inside M2M (/mnt/mmc0.1/loader/entries/boneblack.conf)'
blspec: booting BeagleBone Black - Inside M2M from mmc0
Adding "root=PARTUUID=eaabcc21-02" to Kernel commandline

Loading ARM Linux zImage '/mnt/mmc0.1//boot/zImage'
Loading devicetree from '/mnt/mmc0.1//boot/am335x-boneblack.dtb'
commandline: root=PARTUUID=eaabcc21-02 console=ttyS0,115200n8 rootwait
Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0

[...] blablabla [...]

mmcblk0: mmc0:aaaa SC16G 14.8 GiB
 mmcblk0: p1 p2
EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
VFS: Mounted root (ext4 filesystem) readonly on device 179:26.

Thanks for pointing out to the root cause!
Either I change my sfdisk scripting to create partitions including
PARTUUIDs or... is utilizing this "variable mmc1.nt_signature" a
sufficient workaround in barebox? I can not handle this information,
yet.

Kind Regards
Konsti

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