getting armed

[Jay Vaughan]

> I created it using gparted on an ubuntu machine.
> created a first partition, set the same flags as the one that does boot (boot and lba)

Did you create the Partition *Table* with gparted, too?  i.e. Deleted all partitions, deleted the last partition, created new partition with Linux GUID format for the partition table (not MBR, like in Windows..)

I'm honestly only asking twice because this is a very common, quite often overlooked gotcha.

> copied the known good one using DD to an image
> copied this image to the new boot partition 
> extracted the angstrom image to the second partition (3.6Gb)
> Popped it in the beaglebone and switch it on
> all I get on the console is "C" 8 times, then nothing....

This is the kernel not booting because its not being found and loaded into memory, because .. perhaps .. the partition table is not set up for Linux GUID.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table

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Jay Vaughan