On Thursday, February 13, 2014 6:05:05 PM UTC-5, RobertCNelson wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 4:59 PM, John Mark Clayton > <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> >> I've been lurking here since last Sept while I've been playing around >> with my BBB, running a few different versions of Angstrom and Ubuntu off >> the SD card. And trying out different applications on the device. Now I >> want to flash the eMMC but I'm having trouble getting it to start writing >> the image into eMMC. It simply boots off the card. The image I'm trying to >> flash is RCN's BBB-ubuntu-13.10-2013-12-17-4gb fwiw. >> >> What am I doing wrong? I have a populated SD card inserted in the device. >> It's the card I've been using to try out different OS versions so I know it >> works. I hold down the boot switch while I power it up via the 5v barrel >> connector. The power supply is 5V, 2A. I read one place where they >> suggested holding down the reset and boot switches at the same time when >> applying power. No luck with that either. >> > > Well "BBB-ubuntu-13.10-2013-12-17-4gb" out of the box was just "designed" > to run just off the microSD card... (no flasher in name) > > So... To make it flash the eMMC, boot once and: > > sudo touch /boot/uboot/flash-eMMC.txt > > and > sudo touch /boot/uboot/run_boot-scripts > (this second one was removed in later script..) > > then reboot... (it should flash... but that was 2013-12-17..) > > Regards, > > -- > Robert Nelson > http://www.rcn-ee.com/ >
Oh okay, I thought the flasher was burned on the device, but it's part of the image then. Well that explains me troubles. I don't know where I got the idea the flasher was burned on the device but now I know - thanks. Is there a better image to be using beside the one I have? I'm not committed to this one in particular. I need something that will support a USB hub with a serial-usb adaptor and a usb printer. Thanks again! Mark -- 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.
