> > *Greetings,* > > *I am having a great deal of difficulty getting Wheezy Debian on the BBB. > I read and performed the booting instructions that called for holding the > boot button down until the four tiny LED lights illuminated and started > turning off and on at random levels. I did this several times with it > failing. This process when for HOURS about three before I stopped it. My > board does not boot anymore and I think I might have bricked it. Is there > any way to recover from this? I read some posts about unbricking it but > they were for Angstom and I have no idea what is on the flash at this point > and time. Can anyone give me a starting point and a direction? A simple > test to figure out what is on the board and how to get back to square one? > Thank you* >
First off, you can not brick the beaglebone black. >From the sounds of things, it sounds like you've been unsuccessfully using a flasher image. Which has by now probably rendered the eMMC non bootable. Try this image: https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/release/2015-11-03/console/bone-debian-7.9-console-armhf-2015-11-03-2gb.img.xz Which is listed here: http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#2015-11-03 Anyhow, that is a standalone image, and will boot from sdcard. Get the Beaglebone booting from that first. First try booting it without holding down the boot button, but if for some reason it does hang at boot: 1. power the board down. 2. press, and hold down the boot button. 3. Apply power 4. Continue holding down boot button until you see USR0 beat in a "heartbeat" flashing pattern. On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Bill Dussault <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I am having a great deal of difficulty getting Wheezy Debian on the BBB. I > read and performed the booting instructions that called for holding the > boot button down until the four tiny LED lights illuminated and started > turning off and on at random levels. I did this several times with it > failing. This process when for HOURS about three before I stopped it. My > board does not boot anymore and I think I might have bricked it. Is there > any way to recover from this? I read some posts about unbricking it but > they were for Angstom and I have no idea what is on the flash at this point > and time. Can anyone give me a starting point and a direction? A simple > test to figure out what is on the board and how to get back to square one? > Thank you > > -- > 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 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.
