If your system is working OK (you boot off the BeagleSNES microSD card and you have the BBB plugged into an HDMI TV), you will briefly see a BeagleSNES splash screen in the kernel before coming up in the main game selection menu. Boot takes about 10-12 seconds. Once you hit the menu, the background music will begin playing. Zip forward to 0:40 to see it in action here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igJ4qADrSwo If the gamepad is not plugged in, the lower left corner of the game selection menu will say "PLEASE CONNECT PLAYER 1 GAMEPAD". The system will still start up just fine without one plugged in, though. Once you plug a gamepad in, the lower left corner will change to "+ to select game". BeagleSNES has two modes for starting up. The first is the default "fast boot" setup, which uses BeagleSNES as the init process for the system. In this mode, many of the service daemons aren't started to shorten boot time. Because of this, networking will not work. the other mode is "development" mode. It takes about 20 seconds to boot, rather than 10, but it gives you networking and all the other daemons that you're used to having in a full desktop system. So, you'll never have network connectivity with BeagleSNES unless you switch from "fast boot" to "development". This is done by commenting out one line and commenting another one in in the uEnv.txt file in the /boot partition. The BeagleSNES manual .pdf has instructions to get you through the process. But, it sounds like you might have some fundamentals to take care of, first. Are you using a 5VDC 2A power supply? You won't get very far by powering the system via USB because pushing the AM3359 at a full 1 GHz draws too much power. You'll need to use a power supply. When connecting to the system using PuTTY, are you connecting over the network, or via an FTDI debug cable? The FTDI cable will tell you exactly what is going on, and it is a must because you'll see output from the boot process from the bootloader starting through to a login prompt. This debug output is probably your best bet in having me help diagnose your problem, since there are a lot of variables we can eliminate by looking at the output. Aside from that, if you have no microSD card in your system, and you connect your BBB to your HDMI TV (while the BBB is off), and then you turn on the BBB, do you see the Angstrom installed on the BBB's eMMC running on your TV? If not, did you see Angstrom boot on the TV before you flashed the eMMC to update it? You might just have to retry the eMMC flash (and maybe re-download and/or rewrite the microSD card you use to flash the eMMC). I have not held down the boot button when booting from BeagleSNES before, so I'm not familiar with what will happen if you do. You do not need to hold the button down, since I have set up the uEnv.txt and bootloader for the BeagleSNES image so that it will be picked up by the bootloader installed in the eMMC (with the Angstrom image). My Android image that you tried is set up the same way... both BeagleSNES and the Android image are designed to just "burn and go". Anyway, if you don't have the power supply and FTDI cable, definitely pick those up. If you have the FTDI cable, send me a log of your system booting at hendersa (at) icculus.org and I'll look it over to see if I find anything odd. Glad you like the documentation! It turns out that the time taken to write good docs pays for itself many times over in reduced support mails! Andrew On Wednesday, November 13, 2013 9:30:56 PM UTC-5, Scott Paul wrote: > > Hi Andrew, thanks for responding. > > 1. Yep, about 800mb, got the full image. > 2. Yep, on my 32bit Win 7 system using 7-zip to extract. > 3. With the imaged card in the BBB, nothing mounts, at all. I get lights > dancing, but nothing. > 4. I tried with and without the boot button down, multiple times. > > I felt like I was being safe about setting this thing up too. I have an > anti-static mat at my bench and everything. It is new and this is one of > the first things I'm trying with it. > > I just tried to run android and that did not work either > (BBB_JB_Android_3_8_13.img). Now I'm wondering if the board is busted. > The steps seem very easy and clear to me. Something just isn't working. > I'd rather not spend another $45 to find out its software or my setup. > > If I have the image written to the card, plug it in the BBB, and try > booting it with the default setup, what will the screen look like on the TV? > What will happen if I boot without the controller attached? > Will booting work with and without the boot button held down at power up? > When should I be letting go of the boot button at startup? > > Thanks again for taking anytime to address my questions. Very good job ( > the write up is great ). > -- 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.
