I've managed to really screw up one of my Beaglebone Blacks too. It appears 
that I have clobbered the partition table on the eMMC, which seems to make 
U-Boot very unhappy! The AM335x processor skips the eMMC boot and goes 
directly to uSD boot after power is applied, no matter the position of the 
boot switch. I have tried booting several eMMC flashers, but none have 
worked:

The latest Debian (5/14/14) shows this in serial console:
U-Boot SPL 2014.04-00014-g47880f5 (Apr 22 2014 - 13:23:54)
** Partition 1 not valid on device 0 **
spl_register_fat_device: fat register err - -1
### ERROR ### Please RESET the board ###
and reboots every ~48 seconds

Angstrom (06/20/13) shows this once:
U-Boot SPL 2013.04-dirty (Jun 19 2013 - 09:57:14)
musb-hdrc: ConfigData=0xde (UTMI-8, dyn FIFOs, HB-ISO Rx, HB-ISO Tx, 
SoftConn)
musb-hdrc: MHDRC RTL version 2.0
musb-hdrc: setup fifo_mode 4
musb-hdrc: 28/31 max ep, 16384/16384 memory
USB Peripheral mode controller at 47401000 using PIO, IRQ 0
musb-hdrc: ConfigData=0xde (UTMI-8, dyn FIFOs, HB-ISO Rx, HB-ISO Tx, 
SoftConn)
musb-hdrc: MHDRC RTL version 2.0
musb-hdrc: setup fifo_mode 4
musb-hdrc: 28/31 max ep, 16384/16384 memory
USB Host mode controller at 47401800 using PIO, IRQ 0
OMAP SD/MMC: 0
** Partition 1 not valid on device 0 **
spl: fat register err - -1
### ERROR ### Please RESET the board ###

I even tried an old BBW A6A image from 11/12/12:
U-Boot SPL 2011.09-00053-gb423c52 (Aug 10 2012 - 11:26:55)
Texas Instruments Revision detection unimplemented
No daughter card present
Did not find a recognized configuration, assuming General purpose EVM in 
Profile 0 with Daughter board

I have used the Ubuntu 12.04 Disks tool to wipe the partitions and/or 
format the uSD card. I have tried Win32 Disk Imager version 0.9 and 0.91 on 
Windows 7x64. I have tried dd under Ubuntu. I have also tried several 
different uSD cards. The board is powered via a 24v, 50 watt power supply 
going to a 5v 50 watt DC-DC converter (the other 7 BBBs running on this 
power supply are fine....). This is a Rev C from Element14.

Any other insight? I'm running out of ideas....perhaps I can fiddle with 
U-Boot? Is there a special version, of U-Boot, that will ignore the eMMC, 
or give me the power to create a partition table?  If I can just get a user 
prompt, that would go a long way.

Thanks,
Louis


On Tuesday, October 28, 2014 10:52:17 AM UTC-5, RobertCNelson wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 7:10 AM,  <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
> > Hi, 
> > 
> > So I have done something rather stupid and managed to brick my BBB! 
> > 
> > I was attempting to copy a bootable SD image using the dd command to the 
> > nand flash, and instead of copying the rootfs partition I copied the 
> boot 
> > partition! e.g. 
> > 
> > dd if=/dev/mmcblk0p1 of=/dev/mmcblk1p1 
> > 
> > Now the device does not boot, no LED's apart from power. 
> > 
> > If I look at the serial console output all I get is the letter 'C' 
> repeated 
> > every 300m or so. :( 
>
> Just reflash: 
>
> http://beagleboard.org/latest-images 
>
> Regards, 
>
> -- 
> Robert Nelson 
> http://www.rcn-ee.com/ 
>

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