If you're new, spend some time reading the documentation. Everything and more is in there, but it's a lot to go through.
For one thing, the USB port only supplies 100ma, you will need a powered hub for your keyboard and mouse. The doc's mention that. My HDMI display has a USB hub built in. Makes connecting to the BBB a breeze. Booting off SD cards is well documented. Spend some time reading. Recover your BBB back to original as documented. Then don't make drastic changes until understand what you're changing or else you'll break it again and most likely again and again! ;-) Get several more MicroSD cards. I picked up a bunch of 8Gig cards at Micro Center for 4 bucks each. You can put a recovery flash image on one and leave it. You'll need it as you experiment and work with the BBB. You can load other images on the other cards and use them as needed without having to constantly re-write a new image to the card. -david On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 1:21 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok I have a serious issue with my beaglebone, I can't seem to use it at > all. It has an issue with booting of MicroSD cards and a problem with USB. > > The first issue is the main one, although technically two. A while back I > managed to forget my password and flashed my beaglebone with debian. > However Debian couldn't load lxde, nor could I get the command line to do > anything. (Specifically it loads openbox and just does nothing. In all > cases it does not supply the 150~ to ~300mA current needed to support both > a keyboard and mouse, (I use a kit that needs 150mA, and used a mac > keyboard that needs 200mA that has 2 usb ports,) > > Anyway I reflash my 2GB MicroSD and attempt to boot the thing about 12 > times and no success. It will display the power on LED, but no "Four boot > lights" are seen even after several minutes. I've tried both the Debian and > Angstrom images, both don't work but Angstrom seems to annoy dd as it wont > display any output when "watch -n5 'sudo kill -USR1 (whatever dd's current > number is)'. After each failed boot attempt debian happily continues to > partially boot up. > > Now I've tried ssh'ing and using the link to connect to the beagle bone > and nothing works, the connection isn't there so my computer will just > hang. I have no clue how to find it, I tried NMAP to find it but no luck. > (Albeit I am a noob.) > > I swear to god this thing never worked the way I wanted it to since day > one... Is it a lemon or is there a way to save it? (I would like to save it > as I have little money and there is a project I would like to make with it.) > > Thanks in advance > - Sudoertor > -- 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.
