RobertCNelson figured out why I couldn't boot a BBB after flashing Debian 8.7 (Jessie) 2017-03-19 onto an SD card. It was an old bootloader in eMMC. (see https://github.com/julianduque/beaglebone-io/pull/32#issuecomment-292926642 and the responses.)
On Sunday, April 2, 2017 at 12:59:23 PM UTC+2, Brian Cooke wrote: > > For some reason I can't manage to boot a BBB after flashing Debian 8.7 > (Jessie) 2017-03-19 onto an SD card. > The following command was used to flash the SD card: > > xz -dkc bone-debian-8.7-iot-armhf-2017-03-19-4gb.img.xz > /dev/sdc > > Has something related to flashing/booting changed compared to previous > releases? > > I have the same issue with bone-debian-8.7-iot-armhf-2017-03-26-4gb.img.xz > > On Wednesday, March 22, 2017 at 8:16:44 AM UTC+1, Jason Kridner wrote: >> >> >> https://jkridner.wordpress.com/2017/03/22/2017-03-19-beaglebone-debian-images-published/ >> >> >> Debian 8.7 (Jessie) 2017-03-19 images are now published on >> https://beagleboard.org/latest-images, but this version isn’t likely to >> live more than a few weeks before we push yet another. The big update here >> is eliminating the need to install drivers for any of Windows, Mac or Linux >> host users when working over USB networking. This was accomplished by >> updating the default RNDIS interface to use a USB >> class/subclass/protocol recommended by Microsoft for users of Windows Vista >> and newer >> <https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff538820(v=vs.85).aspx>. >> >> To support Mac OS X out of the box, we added a second virtual network >> interface supporting the CDC-ECM mode, rather than RNDIS. >> >> Mac users are no longer recommended to install HoRNDIS >> <http://joshuawise.com/horndis>, but man do we appreciate all that >> Joshua Wise did in supporting the BeagleBoard.org community by creating >> that product and continuing to resolve issues around it on subsequent OS X >> releases. Mac users should now be able to discover their boards using >> http://beaglebone.local as Bonjour/Avahi/mDNS is a standard service on >> OS X, but note that http://192.168.6.2 should be the new magic IP >> address for this new interface. >> >> One issue I’ve seen on Macs with the latest image is the interface now >> shows itself as a gateway, encouraging you to drive traffic through this >> port—and that could mess up your connection to the Internet. Your >> BeagleBone should proxy the traffic fine if it is connected to the >> Internet, but the DNS proxy isn’t working the best, meaning you might not >> be able to look up the names of servers on the Internet. One quick >> work-around is to apply the Google DNS servers (8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4) to your >> new network adapter. There are many alternatives to that, but those are >> ones I know off the top of my head. I think we should be able to address >> this whole experience issue by asking Joshua how he avoided the issue with >> HoRNDIS—and that is the next step. >> >> The other big updates here are some fixes to BoneScript (0.6.1) and >> libroboticscape (0.3.4) for BeagleBone Blue >> <https://beagleboard.org/blue>, the new robotics-focused BeagleBone. >> Many feature gaps and bugs remain, but this fixes some of the immediate >> show-stoppers for people getting started. Now that the board is out there >> in 1,000s of users hands, I expect the bug reports to start rolling in and >> we can use that to drive immediate development to resolve issues. >> >> So, long live 2017-03-19…. but not very long. >> > -- 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/1ed2525e-ab88-4990-a0aa-69e8d7f3762a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
