On Friday, November 20, 2015 at 12:15:29 PM UTC-5, RobertCNelson wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Gary Pajer <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > > > > > > On Friday, November 20, 2015 at 10:48:33 AM UTC-5, RobertCNelson wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 9:44 AM, Gary Pajer <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > I have an old 4 GB SD card which has Ubuntu 11 on it. I have two 8 > GB > >> > SD > >> > cards to play around with. I'm not willing to overwrite the 4G card. > >> > I've > >> > tried all kinds of permutations of installation instructions, none > have > >> > worked. I've used RCN's netinstall, his "regular" (non-net) install > >> > script, > >> > and I've tried using dd to write an image directly on the card. I > get > >> > one > >> > of two results: A card that does almost nothing on boot (it prints > the > >> > characters "60" to the screen), or a card that starts to boot, but > fails > >> > when it can't find or write certain things, dropping me into that > tiny > >> > "debugging" shell. > >> > >> Well that 2nd one is closer, care to pastebin.com your serial log from > >> that and "cat /proc/cmdline" > >> > >> Regards, > > > > > > I've gotten a little farther using netinstall. I don't know what I did > > differently... maybe I ejected the SD card more properly from my laptop. > At > > any rate, now the BB gets to "Starting kernel ..." then stalls. > > > > Installation log: http://pastebin.com/qnUwHiVR > > Beagleboard boot-up log: http://pastebin.com/5Ud0iPNq > > > > ... and thanks for all your work on this, and your patience. > > "Installer for [trusty-armhf] is using the Video Interface > Use [--serial-mode] to force Installing over the Serial Interface" > > Well, can we assume you have a monitor and keyboard plugged in? > > If not then add this option "--serial-mode" >
Surely you've learned not to assume anything. I am connecting via serial port. That option gets much farther. I'm now configuring Ubuntu. I have a problem there, but I'll start a new thread for that. Thanks. > > 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.
