Hi I'd like to report something odd I have experienced with the ubuntu-14.04.1-console-armhf-2014-10-29.tar.xz distribution installed on an 8 Gb SD card. It all boots fine and a connection can be made to the BBB via the USB keyboard/HDMI monitor and also via ssh from a remote PC.
However, connecting up the USB cable from the BBB to a PC running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS destroys the ability of the BBB to boot from that SD card. Any existing ssh connections into the BBB return the phrase "*bus failure*" upon the next key press. Removing the USB cable and attempting to reboot results in a BBB with a failed boot and all four LEDs fully on. The only option is to reinstall onto the SD card. The BBB as USB does appear in the remote PC's launcher bar but the contents of the BBB cannot be viewed in the File Manager. Also, I doubt this is related, but an SD card formatted up with the ubuntu-14.04.1-console-armhf-2014-10-29.tar.xz image requires the button to be pressed on each boot - otherwise it boots from EMMC. I am not sure what is controlling this, but other SD cards I have formatted up only seem to require the button press on the first boot and the BBB remembers it thereafter. These issues may be known about already - sorry if that is the case. The SD card was created by downloading ubuntu-14.04.1-console-armhf-2014-10-29.tar.xz un-tar'ing it to a directory cd'ing to that directory installing with a command: ./setup_sdcard.sh --mmc /dev/sdb --dtb beaglebone This is quite reproducible on my BBB - not just a one-off. -- 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.
