On Friday, January 1, 2016 at 10:01:50 PM UTC-8, Hilmar Lapp wrote: > > Thanks much for your efforts. For one, your results were the final nudge I > needed to buy a USB to TTL serial debug cable. It’s possible that I didn’t > have enough patience with LEDs all dark and not being able to see any > indications of it actually booting. From booting the BeagleBoard Debian > Wheezy images from uSD I was used to seeing the LEDs come on very quickly, > so I was apparently mistaken to assume this would be the same for the > Snappy Core image. > > I'm guessing that the boot loader does some of that early LED flashing and since Snappy has its own boot loader on the uSD there's not initial flashy LEDs
> Second, the fact that booting the image flashed your eMMC is not cool. I > was in fact wondering whether it would or not. The documentation is silent > about this question, and the file name of the image contains no suggestion > that it flashes the eMMC. On AskUbuntu, someone actually asked whether > there is a flasher image: > http://askubuntu.com/questions/713604/snappy-on-beaglebone-black-or-green > It could be I held the button too long or not long enough. I've not seen it try to flash now even though the eMMC doesn't have a boot able image now. I'm thinking that was cockpit error. > > The answer basically repeats the documentation from developer.ubuntu.com > (which does not say anything about flashing versus not), and upon being > specifically asked in the comments by people for whom the image failed to > flash the eMMC, the poster admits they don’t know about that part. I also > tried to glean the answer from the snappy-boot.txt file that it uses > instead of the uEnv.txt, but there’s nothing in there that obviously > indicates that the eMMC will be flashed. > > To me, whether booting the image will or will not flash your eMMC is a > rather important distinction, so to me this is a red flag. On top of that, > based on what I can find 15.04 is *only* available as Snappy Core for armhf > systems, which means that even just basic things such as installing apache > become a huge hassle: > > http://askubuntu.com/questions/694397/how-to-install-apache-on-a-raspberry-pi-2-ubuntu-snappy-core > > Based on this experience, while they have nice looking websites, I’m > afraid the Ubuntu folks don’t have their act together for Ubuntu on BBB, > and as a consequence I’ll stay away from them and their images for now. > I would think Debian and/or standard Ubuntu are still the best go-to OS's for these devices(BBB, rPi, etc). For me at least for now. -- 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.
