> > *So are you suggesting I download the latest 2GB Debian "flasher" image, > flash it, and then boot my SD card?* >
I suggest you do what you feel most comfortable with. Both our A5A's here still have the original Angstrom on them, and I just suck it up and hold down the boot button at power up. Well actually lately I've been using our Element14 RevC's exclusively. *Easy enough to do but, how does this explain the working on Ubuntu 15.10 > but not Windows 7 aspect of it?* So this is the reason ( most likely ) for this observation. Windows, even Win7 really, really sucks at device driver management. That is to say, you installed an older driver that works for the Angstrom image, which is different from the newer image in Windows eyes. In fact, I do believe they both use different drivers in Windows. The original being an "Elmo GAS LTD" gadget driver or some such. Linux on the other hand, just recognizes the "different" newer driver as "just the same thing as before", and is able to deal with it better. So, dealing with this issue in Windows is a huge pain in the rear. I'm personally very experience with Windows in general, and had a hard time dealing with it. That is to say, at one point I was a paid systems consultant . . . where I dealt largely with Windows. My recommendation would be to use only Linux systems when dealing with the Beaglebones. Sure, you can use Windows, but honestly it is more of a hassle than it is worth . . . On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 8:32 PM, Wally Bkg <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for the reply, you are always concise and helpful. > > No I've never flashed the A5A 2GB eMMC, keeping the original Angstrom as > a "fallback", but I did do a lot of opkg stuff in an attempt to actually > use it, but kept getting tripped up by differences between Angstrom and > Ubuntu/Debian and the dearth up to date Angstrom docs and information -- if > an Adafruit tutorial didn't address it, I was pretty much stuck. I was > quick to try the BBB Debian images. > > So are you suggesting I download the latest 2GB Debian "flasher" image, > flash it, and then boot my SD card? > > Easy enough to do but, how does this explain the working on Ubuntu 15.10 > but not Windows 7 aspect of it? > > > On Saturday, December 26, 2015 at 9:13:19 PM UTC-6, RobertCNelson wrote: >> >> >> Did you reflash this a5a? As even with the new image, it's still booting >> with the old u-boot.. >> >> If course I also have a few a5a's where the USB slave port no longer >> works.. >> >> -- > 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.
