Questions on RiscOS and BeagleBoard-Xm

Hello

I have a few question about RiscOS on BeagleBoard-Xm.
I see on the ROOL store a RISC OS Native Stick? Can I expect a plug-and-play experience with this USB stick, i.e. plug the key, switch on the BBXm and end up in a fully usable environment?

I also see the existence of a CMOS widget and I am not sure to understand what it is useful for.

Thank you for your help.

François

I think the usb stick you are referring to is actually for emulation on a PC or Mac and includes versions of RPCEmu for those machines and the RISC OS ROM and hard drive image all set up and ready to go. It is not for the BeagleBoard. If you are wanting a ready set up SD card for the BeagleBoard, then CJEMicros and R-Comp would both provide those.

The CMOS widget is a small gizmo that fits on to the BB or PB and behaves as if you had CMOS EEROM fitted to store the configuration settings in the same way as the Risc PC and earlier machines stored their settings. There is then no need to store the settings on the SD card. I have them on both the BB and PB.

There are two different versions. One is for booting an emulator and the other is for native hardware.
The one you want is the native one. I don’t think it is 100% plug and play as by default the RISC OS rom tries to boot off SDFS and enter the desktop.
This is where the CMOS widget comes in handy. All you do is a ‘*configure FileSystem SCSI’. Reboot and RISC OS should now boot automatically off the USB stick.
It still needs the firmware and RISC OS rom to be on the SD card boot partition.

Ahhh – sorry, I didn’t realise there were both types. I should have actually looked at the shop page!

Thanks for your replies.

Is there somewhere a distribution for BeagleBoard-Xm like the one available for RaspberryPi or OpenPandora (from Raik’s site)?

François

No ;-)

https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/forums/11/topics/1891

Upps, yes ;-)
Is a old one. You can create your own with SystemDisc.