The behavior you describe is what I have sometimes got when it doesn't have the right root partition mounted. If you boot up with a micro sd card installed, it may be trying to mount that filesystem as root. Does it behave itself when the external SD card is removed?
I have had three problems so far: 1. System gets into a mode where it will boot, machine is pingable, USB is working (because ctrl-alt-del works on a USB keyboard) but none of the services are running (can't ssh to the unit) and the HDMI video isn't working (have a signal but not displaying anything). Once the unit gets into this mode, the only recovery is to re-flash it. It has done this twice. 2. Sometimes when power is applied it will not boot. The LEDs don't light, nothing. Cycling power to the unit via plug/unplug of the power supply clears the problem' 3. Commenting the entries out of /etc/network/interfaces for usb0 has no effect. I have commented out the lines in /etc/network/interfaces but it still comes up active. My guess is that your system is trying to mount the sd card as the root partition and none of your service daemons are there. Which image are you running? I think for me the problem of booting with an sd card was fixed with the image found on BBB-eMMC-flasher-ubuntu-13.04-2013-09-27 but even running that image it ended up "hanging" once in that mode where it won't boot from either eMMC or sd, interface comes up, is pingable, but no services start, no display from HDMI, keyboard works. That sounds to me like the problem you are facing. The only way out of that mode I have found so far is re-flashing the unit. -- 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]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
