It should automatically boot from the card without having to push the boot button. On Debian 8 and later, this usually means that you do not have the "boot bit" set on the card.
If you created the card by installing the resident version of Debian, then expanding the partition, the "boot bit" should already be set. If you created the card some other way, then put it in a Linux desktop, and run Gparted. Go into the option-menus and manually set the boot bit. It should then automatically boot, whenever you apply power to the BBB. There is probably some other way to manually edit the card and set the bit, but I find Gparted very easy to use. I am running a BBG as a SoftEther VPN server and it works fine. No need to push buttons to get it to boot. --- Graham == On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 4:14 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote: > > Graham (or anyone who knows....): > > I use my BBB as a VPN server running Softether. Right now, it is all > running from a 16gb uSD card which means that I >have to hold the button > every time I power it up. > The reason for this is that you have an older bootloader on the emmc. You > can change this behavior if you wish. BY two differnt method I personally > am aware of. > > >Can you tell me how to get this all into the eMMC memory? I don't use any > >video or GUI but don't know how to eliminate >those features from the > Debian Jessie 8.4 that I am running so that there >would be room for > Softether as well in the eMMC. > > Thanks in advance for help with this...Arnie > > You download and put a flasher image onto an sdcard. Instead of a > standalone image. > > On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 11:05 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Graham (or anyone who knows....): >> I use my BBB as a VPN server running Softether. Right now, it is all >> running from a 16gb uSD card which means that I have to hold the button >> every time I power it up. Can you tell me how to get this all into the eMMC >> memory? I don't use any video or GUI but don't know how to eliminate those >> features from the Debian Jessie 8.4 that I am running so that there would >> be room for Softether as well in the eMMC. >> Thanks in advance for help with this...Arnie >> >> On Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at 10:18:44 AM UTC-4, Graham wrote: >>> >>> You never said how you are running the BBB. >>> If you are running without a video display, local or remote, then you >>> don't need about half of what is in the full package. >>> Then you could load a minimum "console" package, which will only fill >>> 1.7G of your 4 G eMMC, then add in what else you need to run your >>> application. >>> So, you would have about 2 GB of play space. >>> >>> If you have a video display you are better off going with the full >>> package.. >>> >>> --- Graham >>> >>> == >>> >>> >>> On Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at 8:27:27 AM UTC-5, blues man wrote: >>>> >>>> Thanks, Graham! I'll just use my 64G uSD card, expand the file system, >>>> and go back to JRMC on Debian. I guess the older images didn't fill the >>>> eMMC, so I still had room for JRMC - but the latest one tipped the scale >>>> too far. I've been viewing having to run from the card as a sign of >>>> defeat, for some odd reason! :) >>>> >>> -- >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "BeagleBoard" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/4cc6fa59-245f-4eae-bb87-60a14cbbd3de%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/4cc6fa59-245f-4eae-bb87-60a14cbbd3de%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beagleboard/Sfpg7Ohg_Z4/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CALHSORoqGr_xYzoVHiGbg2FCTpBbnBOeCy40%2BdQWF405ew2LbQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CALHSORoqGr_xYzoVHiGbg2FCTpBbnBOeCy40%2BdQWF405ew2LbQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CANN_KV5d6fksyade2ALAH3wayUf7r__H4VxkxwhNNLeU%2BwGGYA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
