Did you try the factory image to get a handle on the overall process?
Gerald On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 6:40 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey, fairly new to the BBB, decided I'm a bit overrun with rPi's and it > was time to change things up... > > I wanted to get Debian on the BBB, went to > http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardDebian#Debian_7_.28wheezy.29 downloaded the > https://rcn-ee.net/deb/flasher/wheezy/BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.3-2013-12-17-2gb.img.xzmdd'd > it to a 8GB micro card, put the card in and hold the boot switch down, > plug in the BBB... and power light... nothing else. > > I originally thought maybe I wasn't holding the down the button long > enough, so, I tried holding it down for three minutes (left a nice imprint > on my finger) and still, just a power light. It boots fine without the SD > card to Angstrom... just can't get anything to work as far as flashing the > eMMC > > So far tried different SD cards, the Debian image I linked, an Ubuntu > image, about to try Arch, but so far same result... just a power light, the > BBB has been unboxed for all of an hour now and this being the first thing > (which should be relatively easy) I'm trying to do and just nothing is > working out, any help would be much appreciated. > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
