Did you set the "boot" bit on the uSD card? --- Graham ==
On Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at 12:52:31 PM UTC-5, Phil Mills 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. > > > 1. 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 > 2. Installed bmaptool ver3.2 via apt-get > 3. Brought 2GB card over to VM > 1. mounted as /dev/sdd1; did "umount /dev/sdd1" to allow bmaptool > to open w/ exclusive access > 2. Ran bmaptool as described above - no errors indicated. > 3. Ejected uSD from VM image, host. > 4. Inserted 16GB uSD into Win7 system, > 1. copied 2015-03-01 debian 7.8 image > 2. copied eeprom dump > 3. created new job.txt file with contents as described above (UNIX > line endings) > 4. ejected uSD from Win7 > 5. 2GB uSD into reader on BBB > 6. 16GB uSD into USB adapter, then to USB on BBB > 7. Serial cable connected > 8. TP4 grounded to P8-1 > 9. Power applied via mini-USB cable > 10. "CCCCCCCC" > > Suggestions or troubleshooting steps? > I have erased/re-formatted/reloaded the cards 2x with same results. > > -phil > > On Tuesday, September 8, 2015 at 3:45:03 PM UTC-6, RobertCNelson wrote: >> >> On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 4:38 PM, Phil Mills <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Robert, >> > >> > Thanks for the prompt (and detailed!) reply. That's exactly the >> information >> > I'm trying to find. >> > >> > ...now I just have to convince our IT staff / McAffee to white-list >> your web >> > server (if it ain't one thing, it's another) so I can get those files. >> >> make sure to use the https version too.. "https://rcn-ee.com/"; missed >> the s in my copy/paste... >> >> > >> > This may be useful information to add to a wiki somewhere - I can't be >> the >> > only person with blank (or inadvertently borked) BBB EEPROMs running >> around. >> >> It only sets the initial "code" A335BNLT, just enough to assume to be a >> bbb.. >> >> But i don't want it make it too easy.. it's really for >> CircuitCo/cm's/cloner's/etc to use.. ;) >> >> and if you are making a "98%" clone that's going to be sold into the >> general population, we really want you to contact beagleboard.org and >> we have empty bits for you to use for identification.. (the >> beaglebone-green is the most recent example..) >> >> Regards, >> >> -- >> Robert Nelson >> https://rcn-ee.com/ >> > -- 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.
