Linux, U-Boot, OMAP, opensource, scripting, technology news are my interest areas. H/w I have: a) Beagle board rev A5 b) a 512Meg Micro SD card with adapter c) USB2Serial convertor (my laptop docking station has a PCI UART, but I hardly ever use docking stations) d) card reader Objective use the UI tools in Linux as much as possible to boot mmc card on beagleboard. Step 1: getting to know the usb