you forgot the most important thing. you cannot flash a BBB when powered by USB
you need a decent external 5v power supply On 11/30/2015 1:39 PM, William Hermans 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/ > > > 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] <mailto:[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] > <mailto:[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] > <mailto:[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.
