Booting

Booting the gumstix from a micro SD card

Currently, I boot the gumstix from a 2GB micro SD card. NOTE that 4GB SDHC does work to boot from. If booting from flash, the card is found and read/write works fine even with 4GB. Probably the U-boot version does not support SDHC cards. These instructions for setting up the MicroSD card works fine for me. Don't forget to enable the MMC_ROOT by uncommenting the line in the ~/gumstix/gumstix-oe/com.gumstix.collection/conf/machine/gumstix-custom-verdex.conf

MACHINE_FEATURES += "mmcroot"

If boot hangs at ??

The first boot from the SD starts fine, but hangs after a while at This seems to be a problem with ... and can be worked around by interrupting the boot by pressing 'Ctrl-c' on the serial console, which lets the boot continue. Then you can log in. At this point removing two files like so, should make the boot process complete at the next boot. Here's the post that I found and worked for me link

Some post on causes and alternate solutions: ethernet modprobe that does not return