Hello Scott. Here are some of the usual problems that I see when people contact me about BeagleSNES:
1. Did you download the beaglesnes_full.img.bz2 file? Sometimes, people download one of the other files, which provides a portion of the system or the source code, rather than the executable image. 2. Did you decompress the BeagleSNES image before you wrote it to the microSD card? I have had reports from people using my Android image that if you write the image without decompressing it, you get similar behavior to what you are reporting. 3. The root filesystem in the image is EXT4, which won't mount under Windows 7. If you don't have a Linux system to mount the microSD card under, you'll need to either copy the ROMs over to the BBB via the network or copy them onto the /boot partition (which mounts under Windows) and then copy them from the /boot partition into the proper place once you get BeagleSNES booted. 4. Are you holding down the boot button to force the system to boot off the microSD card? You DO NOT have to do this. I wrote the uEnv.txt in the BeagleSNES /boot partition to specify the microSD card device as the boot device, so you can just pop in the microSD card and it will boot. A 4 GB microSD card is fine, since I made the image about 3.6 GB in size to account for slightly smaller microSD cards that advertise themselves as 4 GB. Your first step is to get the system booted. Then you can add some ROMs. If you have written the image properly, it should boot to the game selection GUI with the placeholder entries in the menu. If you aren't seeing anything over the FTDI cable with PuTTY when you boot, you probably are writing the still-compressed image to the microSD card. Andrew On Friday, November 8, 2013 6:27:00 PM UTC-5, Scott Paul wrote: > > Hello, first time using a BBB, and I've hit a wall. I'm good with Arduino > toys and before switching back to Windows 7 I used multiple Ubuntu machines > for about 3 years. So some of this BBB stuff isn't too far fetched for me. > > I bought the board from Adafruit about 2 weeks ago now for the soul > purpose of getting BeagleSNES to work on it. From what I can tell, the SD > card isn't getting written correctly or the Beagle can't read it as it > should. > > I followed the getting started for BBB. I was able to plug it in and see > it and then use Putty to log in as root. I also downloaded the latest > software for it, imaged that onto an SD card and the update went fine, > although it took about 65 minutes. Much longer than the "caution, may take > 45 minutes" warning suggested. After plugging it back into my Windows 7 > machine it looks fine, so the update seems to have worked, so my SD card > burning ability is fine, and the BBB can read the card. > > So I download the full BBB image, write that to a card, plug it into the > BBB, plug in the miniUSB cable to Windows, and all I get is a unique blink > pattern for about the first 10 seconds on power up. After that, its just > the heartbeat pattern. Windows never sees any partition, so I can't copy > my roms to it. Basically it looks frozen somewhere. I checked the MD5 > hash whatever code and it is a match for the file from Sourceforge. I try > just plugging everything into the TV anyways (2 different TV's) and there > is nothing. I follow the instructions closely and repeat, nothing. I > deviate a little and try resetting or holding the boot button longer, > nothing. Just a heartbeat and no screen or sound action. > > Then I go back and reburn the image to another 4Gb card, nothing on > Windows or at the TV. I redownload the zipped image, rewrite both cards, > nothing. > > In summary, a whole lotta nothing :) It seems like all the pieces have > proven they work somehow, except the actual BeagleSNES image, which I > downloaded twice and re-wrote to multiple cards, multiple times. > > Now I am downloading Android and going to burn that to another card to see > if that will work. If that works for me, then what? Is BeagleSNES working > with the latest of everything? I assume it is or I would be able to find > more problems in searching this forum, but I didn't. > > Should I try to do a complete format of the microSD card before writing > the image to it? I don't think that should matter. > Should I try getting an 8Gb card? I saw on some write ups that 4Gb is > close and might not always work for other images. > -- 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.
