Hi William, I tried flashing the eMMC as you suggested, but no luck. The LEDs never turned on, so I just waited a very long time. I'll work on getting the serial output next.
Thanks, Bryan On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 7:44 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote: > Using a serial debug cable will give you a better idea of what's going on. > It will not always let you know exactly what the problem is, but based on > what you get as output, someone here could give you a better idea what's > happening. > > Passed that . . . try flashing this to sdcard, and booting from it. > > http://debian.beagleboard.org/images/bone-debian-7.5-2014-05-14-2gb.img.xz > > This is an older image, and I have a good reason as to why you should > attempt booting from this. Older eMMC images can interfere with newer > sdcard images at boot. This should give you( us ) a better idea what is > going on. Typically though, with an older 1st, and 2nd stage boot loader, > if you press and hold the boot button at boot. the board should be forced > to boot from, and use the 1st, and 2nd stage bootloader from the sd card, > instead of attempting to use the boot loaders from the eMC . . . > > On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 7:45 PM, Bryan Hood <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I've got a beagle bone black that used to have debian on it, but it's >> been sitting on my desk unpowered for over a year. I recently tried booting >> it, but the user LEDs won't turn on; only the power LED will light up. I >> tried programming the on board flash, and booting from a microSD card, but >> no luck. Any suggestions? I've got tools at work to probe the debug header, >> but I'm hoping it doesn't come to that. Thanks! >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beagleboard/jUhsE9jPSUo/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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.
