Hi Charles,

I'm open to try older builds. Can you point me to a working older 
instructions that can help me get this board booting?

Thanks,
-Hesham

On Sunday, June 26, 2016 at 6:09:39 PM UTC-4, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
>
> Of course!  <doh!> 
> You can tell how long it's been since I booted my BBW.  :blush: 
>
> Anyway, there have been lots of changes with the boot loader since the 
> BBW, and I'd recommend starting with a working console image with a 
> recent kernel and u-Boot, with the console images probably being the 
> best starting point if you're wanting to craft your own image. 
>
> The ROM boot code of the AM335x hasn't changed, but there are very 
> specific constraints on what makes a bootable uSD image (specifically 
> the MLO boot-loader and it's location on the physical media).  The 
> easiest way to deal with the constraints is to start with a working image. 
>
> On 6/26/2016 4:34 PM, evilwulfie wrote: 
> > BBW has no emmc :) 
> > 
> > On 6/26/2016 12:59 PM, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: 
> >> On 6/26/2016 7:56 AM, Hesham wrote: 
> >>> Hi all, 
> >>> 
> >>> I have an old BBW that I wanted to revive. It boots fine with the SD 
> card that 
> >>> came with it. It boots well with an old SD that I built following come 
> old 
> >>> instructions, pre-dates DTS. 
> >>> 
> >>> Now, I've tried to build it following the instructions on: 
> >>> https://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBone 
> >>> It fails to boot. I think something is wrong regarding the bootloader, 
> either 
> >>> the way I built it or the instructions might be wrong for this old 
> platform. 
> >> An old BBW is going to have an ancient (in computer time-scale) 
> >> boot-loader.  I recommend you flash the on-board eMMC with a new boot 
> >> loader.  You can do this manually if you really want to (and know 
> >> how), but the easiest way would be to use a recent console image 
> >> flasher like: 
> >> 
> >> 
> http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#Flasher:_.28console.29_.28BeagleBone_Black.2FGreen_eMMC.29
>  
> >> 
> >> ...assuming you don't mind trashing whatever is in the eMMC, of course! 
> >> 
> > 
>
>
> -- 
> Charles Steinkuehler 
> [email protected] <javascript:> 
>

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