Hi William - Looks my issue was not the SD card but the Serial cable. It's not booting in the following scenarios:
- Both ends USB and Serial connected - Serial connected, USB disconnected (probably due the FTDI chip?) We're set at this point. Thanks for pointing me out to Roberts' instructions - will come handy if I want to go more advanced! *Michaël* On Monday, June 23, 2014 11:01:30 PM UTC+2, William Hermans wrote: > > Micheal, > > Well thats good to hear. For future reference if you need it. > http://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBone+Black is Robert Nelson's > build from scratch instructions. Now I do realize you did not ask how to > build uboot / kernel from source etc, but perhaps the file structure > sections will give you an idea of how things should be placed. > > So now it sounds more like a missing MLO or am335x-boneblack.dtb. > Probably the latter, but Robert would know best. > > > On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 2:14 AM, <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Hi William - >> >> Good news - with another SD card from a friend I was able to boot the >> BBB. So as you mentioned, there is possibly something off with my SD card. >> Will re-format and try again. >> Thanks for the quick reply! >> >> *Michaël* >> >> >> On Monday, June 23, 2014 7:05:33 AM UTC+2, William Hermans wrote: >>> >>> Hi Micheal. >>> >>> I have not experienced this exact problem myself but have experienced >>> similar problems ( single power led lit only ). DO you know which kernel >>> version that flasher image is using ? >>> >>> I suspect this may be EEPROM related but short of that have you tried >>> flashing an earlier version ? I'm personally using . . >>> >>> *$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/osrelease* >>>> *3.8.13-bone47* >>>> >>> >>> on an A5A Beaglebone black, and it works fine. Also, what does the file >>> / partition structure look like on the sdcard ? >>> The first ( FAT ) partition should have . . . >>> >>> *root@arm:/boot# ls -a* >>>> *. .. uEnv.txt uEnv.txt.save uboot* >>>> *root@arm:/boot# cd uboot/* >>>> *root@arm:/boot/uboot# ls -a* >>>> *. .. MLO dtbs u-boot.img uEnv.txt zImage* >>>> *root@arm:/boot/uboot# cd dtbs/* >>>> *root@arm:/boot/uboot/dtbs# ls -a* >>>> *. am335x-boneblack.dtb am335x-tester.dtb >>>> omap3-beagle.dtb omap4-panda-a4.dtb omap4-sdp.dtb* >>>> *.. am335x-evm.dtb omap2420-h4.dtb >>>> omap3-evm.dtb omap4-panda-es.dtb omap4-var-som.dtb* >>>> *am335x-bone.dtb am335x-evmsk.dtb omap3-beagle-xm.dtb >>>> omap3-tobi.dtb omap4-panda.dtb omap5-evm.dtb* >>>> >>> >>> *uEnv.txt.save* Should not exist on your sdcard( I run a modified boot >>> setup ). >>> >>> Also for refference. >>> >>> *root@arm:/# lsblk* >>>> *NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT* >>>> *mmcblk1boot0 179:16 0 1M 1 disk* >>>> *mmcblk1boot1 179:24 0 1M 1 disk* >>>> *mmcblk0 179:0 0 14.7G 0 disk* >>>> *|-mmcblk0p1 179:1 0 48M 0 part /boot/uboot* >>>> *`-mmcblk0p2 179:2 0 14.6G 0 part* >>>> *mmcblk1 179:8 0 1.8G 0 disk* >>>> *|-mmcblk1p1 179:9 0 70.6M 0 part* >>>> *`-mmcblk1p2 179:10 0 1.7G 0 part* >>>> *root@arm:/# blkid* >>>> */dev/mmcblk0p1: SEC_TYPE="msdos" LABEL="boot" UUID="0E8A-D5A6" >>>> TYPE="vfat"* >>>> */dev/mmcblk0p2: LABEL="rootfs" >>>> UUID="abf43946-e917-4a00-a9b5-a93386d2d5ed" TYPE="ext4"* >>>> */dev/mmcblk1p1: LABEL="BEAGLEBONE" UUID="5147-0BEE" TYPE="vfat"* >>>> */dev/mmcblk1p2: LABEL="Angstrom" >>>> UUID="ded34392-3812-4b8d-ab38-342da9a4b0d8" TYPE="ext4"* >>>> >>> >>> I still have the original ( well updated once ) Angstrom on the MMC. >>> mmcblk0 is the sdcard. >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 2:41 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Today I've flashed my BBB rev B with Debian 7.5 (went quicker than the >>>> described 45 minutes). After playing with the network settings I wanted >>>> to >>>> reboot "shutdown -r now", when I did that the BBB did not came up >>>> anymore.. >>>> Only the power led is on, other USR leds are not on, whatever I try >>>> (holding boot, power button, reset button, ...). >>>> >>>> After a while I connected the Serial Debug cable and I'm seeing the >>>> following message. >>>> .\�(kR֨�[X��(V,�#�Y.�,.H�YX�Z�,�Z[X��SI��,�Y�k R�&.HK�KLC���$HQ��CR >>>> ### Please RESET the bcard ### >>>> C�UK��,�*TS��014.04-00014-c43880f5 (Apr 22 2014 - 132354) >>>> �YX�Z�,�X���C�.\[(kR֨�[X��(V,ר�.#HY��cr readinc imace arcs, err - -1 >>>> readinc 5-bcc4.imc >>>> .\�(kV֨�[X��(V,�#�Y.�,.H�YX�Z�,�Z[X��SI��,�Y�k R�&.HK�KLC���$HQ��CR >>>> ### Plea3e RESET 4he bcard ### >>>> C�UK��,�*TS��014.04-00014-c43880f5 (Apr 22 2014 - 132354) >>>> �YX�Z�,�X���C�.\�(kR֨�[X��(V,Ө�&#HY��cr readinc imace arcs, err - -1 >>>> readinc 5-bcc4.imc >>>> .\�(kR֨�[X��(V,�#�Y.�,.H�YX�Z�,�Z[X��SI��,�Y�k R�&.HK�KLC���$HQ��CR >>>> ### Plea3e RESET the bcard ### >>>> C�UK��,�*TS��014.04-00014-c43880f5 (Apr 22 2014 - 132354) >>>> �YX�Z�,�X���C�.\�(kV֨�[X��(V,Ө�&#HY��cr readinc imace arc3, err - -1 >>>> readinc 5-bcc4.imc >>>> .\�(kR֨�[X��(V,�#�Y.�,.H�YX�Z�,�Z[X��SI��,�R�k R�&.HK�KLC���$HQ��CR >>>> ### Plea3e RESET the bcard ### >>>> >>>> Only when pressing the RESET button I'm receiving feedback, however the >>>> same as above. >>>> >>>> Googling did not bring me to any relevant topics so I tried the >>>> following without luck >>>> >>>> - Boot from SD >>>> - Re-flash emmc >>>> - power over USB or 5VDC >>>> >>>> Would be good to see if anyone else saw this before and/or has a >>>> solution to this. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> *Michaël* >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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/d/optout. >>>> >>> >>> -- >> 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] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. 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