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/ 
>

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