Thank you. That did it. I now have a working BeagleBone. Rick Harms On Sunday, November 30, 2014 10:17:07 AM UTC-8, RobertCNelson wrote: > > > On Nov 30, 2014 11:56 AM, "Rick Harms" <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > > I have a new Ver C board. I went through the getting started scenario. > I have 30 years computer support, but I am a newbie to the Beaglebone. > > > > I was able to log in just fine, life is sweet. Time to upgrade the OS. > I read thoroughly the upgrade process. I read several "versions, the > Beagleboard.org version, Adafruit version, and a couple of others, Of > course, they were all the same. I chose the > "BBB-eMMC-flasher-2013.09.04.img.xz". I followed the Windows version, > created the SD image and inserted it in the board. I followed the boot > process, the four Leds came on, released the "boot" button. The LEDs > flashed for a few seconds, went out, the all four came on for a couple of > seconds, flashed for a couple of seconds, then the board powered down. > Uh-oh, not right. Sure enough, the OS is hosed. I then inserted the SD > card in my Windows machine. The 16 GB card came up as 68 MB free out of 70 > MB available. ???????? I then did trouble shooting for the next 8 hours. > I got to the point that I was able to reformat the SD card in a few > seconds, it then showed 16 GB again. I tested the card by copying several > Gigs of files to the Card, it is OK. I went through the installation > process a couple of dozen times, the same results each time. I decided > there must be something wrong with the image. So, I switched to the > "Angstrom-Cloud9-IDE-GNOME_eglibc-ipk-v2012.12-beaglebone-2013.06.20.img" > (whew!). This time the SD came up as 2MB free out of 70MB. > ()(*&)(&)_))&*__& I tried it anyway. As this is being posted, the > installation has been going for 3 hours. The USB LED D3 is continuous > flashing and LED D5 flashes twice, every 2 seconds. I will give it a > couple of more hours, probably a waste of time, and then see if it will > boot. I suspect not. > > So, did I do something wrong? I do not know what other information to > provide. Any assistance will be greatly appreciated. > > Rick Harms > > Those images are legacy and 'really' not supported see, for upgrade over > what was shipped with your board. > > > http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#Debian_Image_Testing_Snapshots > > > > > > > -- > > 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. >
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