[email protected] wrote:
> Robert Nelson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 9:28 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > I just tried turning on my BBB after inserting a new (presumably
> > > therefore, empty) 32Gb microSD card into it.  It failed to boot, just
> > > sat with the power LED and the first 3 LEDs permanently on.
> > 
> > The original "Angstrom" image does not support this out of the box.
> > The factory bootloader assumes the presence of a microSD card is
> > enough to boot from it, without any fall back.  Either insert the
> > microSD after boot has started, add a dummy uEnv.txt telling it to
> > boot from eMMC in the first partition, or just switch to the debian
> > based image i've been pushing on this list.
> > 
> That last is a sort of Catch 22, since I can't boot from the microSD.
> 
> I just tried putting Ubuntu 13.10 (your latest version) with your
> scripts onto the SD card.  It all appeared to work perfectly from my
> xubuntu desktop machine but inserting the microSD card into the BBB
> gives the same result.
> 
> I'll persevere, I may have done something wrong on the way.
> 
I had!  The image hadn't got written to the microSD card at all - oops!

I've started another thread on the ongoing symptoms/diagnosis.

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