Hi William,

Thanks for your reply. I'm trying to flash bbb now. Could I ask what's the 
difference between flashing an image vs flashing the eMMC? I thought 
flashing the bbb meant flashing everything. 

I do not currently have anything that I want to keep on bbb. What's the 
difference between booting from an nfs share vs booting normally? 

Also, what do you suggest I do in the future? I didn't follow the blog 
guy's advice and had simply added the line, although I did change the file 
name from nfs-uEnv.txt to uEnv.txt. Should I leave the file name as 
nfs-uEnv.txt next time?

Thanks.

On Friday, February 19, 2016 at 7:04:16 PM UTC-5, William Hermans wrote:
>
> *After that, I changed the name of the file from nfs-uEnv.txt to just 
>> uEnv.txt and rebooted bbb by typing reboot on the terminal, and now I don't 
>> think bbb works.*
>>
>
> Ok, I missed this part originally. Yes, you're attempting to boot from an 
> nfs share, so unless you have an nfs share, setup exactly like how is 
> implied in the uEnv,txt file. Changing nfs-uEnv.txt to uEnv.txt without 
> modification will fail.
>
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 4:59 PM, William Hermans <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> *Delete any lines that may appear in uEnv.txt and add the following and 
>>> save.  This change will tell the board to apply the SPI0 Device Tree 
>>> Overlay we created on startup.*
>>>
>>
>> The above is very, very bad advice. The uEnv.txt is a very important file 
>> for booting the beaglebone black( or any beagle hardware ), and arbitrarily 
>> deleting lines from, or the whole file is not very smart at all. I would 
>> suggest in the future to avoid any advice, guide, or whatever from that 
>> blog site.
>>
>> So, if you board is now in an unbootable state, you're options are rather 
>> limited. In either case, you will need an sdcard, with either a standalone, 
>> or flashing image on it. Then boot from that. With a standalone image, 
>> you'll have to reinstate the uEnv.txt file back to the original contents 
>> before you followed that bad advice from that blog site. If you do not know 
>> how to do this, then perhaps your best option is to reflash the entire eMMC.
>>
>> If you have data on the eMMC that you need / want to keep. You can back 
>> that up fairly easily before reflashing . . .
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 4:44 PM, Audrey <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> I want to enable SPI0 on beaglebone black, and I've been following 
>>> resources online:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://embedded-basics.blogspot.com/2014/10/enabling-spi0-on-beaglebone-black.html
>>> http://elinux.org/BeagleBone_Black_Enable_SPIDEV
>>>
>>> after changing uEnv.txt and rebooting bbb however, bbb doesn't come back 
>>> online. All 4 of the usr LEDs are on, and I can no longer connect back to 
>>> beaglebone.
>>>
>>> Firstly, a few clarifications, in My Computer > BeagleBone Getting 
>>> Started, I did not find any uEnv.txt file, but nfs-uEnv.txt. The contents 
>>> of nfs-uEnv.txt are:
>>>
>>> ##Rename as: uEnv.txt to boot via nfs
>>>> ##https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt
>>>> ##SERVER: sudo apt-get install tftpd-hpa
>>>> ##SERVER: TFTP_DIRECTORY defined in /etc/default/tftpd-hpa
>>>> ##SERVER: zImage/*.dtb need to be located here:
>>>> ##SERVER: TFTP_DIRECTORY/zImage
>>>> ##SERVER: TFTP_DIRECTORY/dtbs/*.dtb
>>>> ##client_ip needs to be set for u-boot to try booting via nfs
>>>> client_ip=192.168.1.101
>>>> #u-boot defaults: uncomment and override where needed
>>>> #server_ip=192.168.1.100
>>>> #gw_ip=192.168.1.1
>>>> #netmask=255.255.255.0
>>>> #hostname=
>>>> #device=eth0
>>>> #autoconf=off
>>>> #root_dir=/home/userid/targetNFS
>>>> #nfs_options=,vers=3
>>>> #nfsrootfstype=ext4 rootwait fixrtc
>>>>
>>>
>>> In the embedded-linux blog, he suggested to delete everything in the 
>>> file and put in 
>>>
>>> optargs=quiet drm.debug=7 capemgr.enable_partno=BB-SPI0-01
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I however followed the instructions from elinux, and just copied the the 
>>> above line. After that, I changed the name of the file from nfs-uEnv.txt to 
>>> just uEnv.txt and rebooted bbb by typing reboot on the terminal, and now I 
>>> don't think bbb works.
>>>
>>> Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
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