Hey William, Yes, that's all very clear in hindsight. I do wish that I had looked up how to turn it off properly before I made the mistake.
Thank you for the clarification on the kernel. It's hard to find up-to-date info. -Nate On Wednesday, April 20, 2016 at 9:15:44 PM UTC-7, William Hermans wrote: > > So, question. If you removed the battery from your laptop, and then ran > your laptop with no battery, an just yanked the power cord out of the wall > to shut it down. What do you think would happen ? It's the same difference, > except it would possibly take many more attempts at corrupting you laptop, > before it did actually corrupt the file system. > > Also, it's running Debian wheezy with a 3.8.x kernel, not Angstrom. Just > so you know. RevC's all came with a *bone-47* 3.8 kernel. > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 9:04 PM, Nathan Wheeler <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Hey all, >> >> I did a search - maybe someone is better at it than I am and could help >> connect me to an explanation/solution? Anyway, here's what has happened: >> >> I got my board in the mail yesterday and connected it to my new MacBook >> Pro Retina (running OSX 10.11.3). I was able to ssh over USB after >> installing the included drivers and write/run code on the board. I didn't >> write anything special, just practiced loading a python example to the >> board. >> >> I didn't know that pulling the USB cable without turning the board off >> via the Power button could corrupt the eMMC onboard. I understand I should >> have read the manual, but I think this information needs to be included on >> any "quick start" info provided to beginners. (If they tell you how to turn >> it on, shouldn't they tell you how to safely turn it off?) I have a lot of >> experience with Arduino and mistakenly thought that I could unplug the >> BeagleBone from power without any other shutdown steps. >> >> So now, the board powers on and the user LEDs flash, and the board shows >> up as an external storage device on my laptop. But the IP address has >> changed to 198.168.7.1, and any attempts to ssh either result in a timeout >> or require password authentication. And the default passwords provided on >> Adafruit and other places are not working. >> >> So, my questions are: >> • How do I know if I've corrupted the data in the eMMC? Will the board >> act normally but not connect? >> • If I can't ssh via USB, will I be able to do so via ethernet, or should >> I just start over/do a restore of Angstrom? >> • Is Angstrom stiil the default distro, or are the boards shipping with >> Debian now? >> • Is this possibly an El Capitan issue? I read a little about that, but I >> downloaded and installed a HoRNDIS version that was supposed to fix the >> issue. >> >> Thanks for your help - I'm really looking forward to learning how to use >> this board and become part of the community. I build interactive interfaces >> for musical performance and am excited about the possibilities offered >> here. >> >> - Nate >> >> -- >> 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] <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/bcdcae01-ee98-4900-b795-f5b372ded41f%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/bcdcae01-ee98-4900-b795-f5b372ded41f%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/7b283842-bf9c-4ef9-9793-c9639d13810f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
