On Tue, 23 May 2017, Nicolas Dechesne wrote:
On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 5:30 PM, Robert P. J. Day rpjday@crashcourse.ca wrote:
In fact you can even use the graphical installer from the command line serial console (e.g. Without the GUI, but this is not documented ;).
ah, that would solve the problem, then. any reason why that's not documented? it's the first possibility that occurred to me to look for.
well, it's possible, but not meant to be used this way. To add proper headless support would require a bit of polishing in the flashing tool. We have a bug opened for that.. https://bugs.96boards.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58
ok, time for a few more questions while i wait for my colleague to return my DB410C. yes, some of these are trivial questions, but sometimes the wording in the docs is not as precise as i'd like.
first, while i have zero interest in android and will eventually reflash the eMMC, for now, i'll just play it safe and leave android where it is and boot straight from SD card. AIUI, as long as there is a valid bootloader(?) in eMMC, that will be used for booting unless i physically flip the S6 ("SD BOOT") switch to ON. so if i want to leave android where it is and just boot from SD, i'll just throw S6 and leave it on for now, correct?
now, as for a bootable image, eventually, i'll build my own using OE and the meta-qcom layer but, just for testing, i can use an image from somewhere under:
http://builds.96boards.org/snapshots/dragonboard410c/linaro/
yes?
however, the aforementioned dragonboard410c_sdcard_install_debian-236.zip image is not just a bootable but an *installation* image. when it boots, do i get the option *not* to install if i just want to boot from it? the doc doesn't seem to mention that.
and if i want strictly a bootable image, would that be the rescue image under the "rescue" directory?
normally, when i pick up a new dev board, the absolutely very first thing i try to do is download a bootable image and boot from it, without changing anything on the board. i would think that any "getting started" guide would explain how to do that as the very first step.
rday