except, I'm not talking about flashing the eMMC. On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 4:07 PM, evilwulfie <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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> > 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> > 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. > > > -- > 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.
