On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Phil Mills <[email protected]> wrote:
> Robert,
>
> I'm not having success - the serial monitor continues to display "CCCCC" as
> soon as it's powered up, so that seems to indicate that it's not finding
> anything bootable on that SD card with the blank flasher image.

Yeah... "VirtualBox"....

Just use 'win32imager" on the base *.img.xz with Windows 7...

All the vm's are crap when it comes to writing to a microSD card..

>
> My setup: 64-bit Debian Jessie (as VirtualBox VM on a Win7 host);
> 2GB uSD card, freshly formatted & overwritten in a uSD->USB converter
> (Virtualbox won't pass the built-in card reader on my laptop into the VMs)
> 16GB uSD card, freshly formatted in a uSD->SD converter
> Installed bmaptool ver3.2 via apt-get
> Brought 2GB card over to VM
>
> mounted as /dev/sdd1; did "umount /dev/sdd1" to allow bmaptool to open w/
> exclusive access
> Ran bmaptool as described above - no errors indicated.
> Ejected uSD from VM image, host.
>
> Inserted 16GB uSD into Win7 system,
>
> copied 2015-03-01 debian 7.8 image
> copied eeprom dump
> created new job.txt file with contents as described above (UNIX line
> endings)
> ejected uSD from Win7
>
> 2GB uSD into reader on BBB
> 16GB uSD into USB adapter, then to USB on BBB
> Serial cable connected
> TP4 grounded to P8-1
> Power applied via mini-USB cable
> "CCCCCCCC"
>
> Suggestions or troubleshooting steps?
> I have erased/re-formatted/reloaded the cards 2x with same results.

Regards,

-- 
Robert Nelson
https://rcn-ee.com/

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