I have successfully reflashed the OS. The thing I did wrong was having anything other than power plugged into the board. I am guessing that the boot code checks for USB keyboard/mouse and/or HDMI and boots to the OS if present. I also know that you can't plug anything in once the flash write process starts ... if you do, the flash will fail. Finally, once the flash write finishes and all the LED light up, I powered off, ejected the uSD, connected the K/V/M and repowered. It did nothing until I pressed the reset button. Now it is all good.
I also looked more closely at the Adafruit instructions and they do indicate that these were for the white Beaglebone and may not work on the BBB. (They don't!) I am going to give Ubuntu a shot and see if I can find a functional WiFi driver for the dongle I already have. Otherwise, I will have to hit the buy button on something in the "known good" list of WiFi options. Thanks for your patience with me! -- 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.
