I have been using Win32 Disk Imager to flash the SD card with BBB-blank-debian-**** images. Then, I insert the SD card, hold the S2 button and plug in the power cord (until the LED's start flashing). This flashes BBB and gives me a fresh BBB ran from eMMC. Now, I want to boot BBB from SD card, and I have tried various methods to no avail.
Methods: 1. Renaming bbb-uEnv.txt on eMMC and/or the SD card to uEnv.txt then reboot with SD card plugged in does boot from SD card. However, it keeps reflashing the eMMC and does not run off the SD card as desired. 2. Renaming MLO (option 2, as per this guide: http://www.erdahl.io/2016/12/beaglebone-black-booting-from-sd-by.html) gets BBB to boot off the SD card. Then, it attempts to reflash the eMMC, and gets stuck at 'Setting LEDs to.' Not sure how I can fix this problem. 3. Following eewiki guide (https://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBone+Black) previously got me a BBB running on SD card. However, it is a minimalist debian ( debian-9.3-minimal-armhf-2017-12-09.tar.xz), and not one with GUI. I am trying to redo that with debian-9.3-lxqt-2gb-armhf-2017-12-24.tar.xz, but I need to rebuild everything again, as TI BSP for 4.9 real-time kernel broke and just got fixed hours ago. (As per https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/beagleboard/%22not$20you%22%7Csort:date/beagleboard/puF5-A3hp44/TbN7HYNyBQAJ) Questions: 1. Are the problems I encounter in methods 1 and 2 are because the bone-debian-**** images being flashing images, and not meant to create bootable SD cards? 2. I previously tried flashing with bone-debian-**** images and they did not work. Any idea on this? 3. How can I fix problem in method 2 above? 4. Is there any image on http://rcn-ee.net that can be used to create a readily bootable SD card the way the BBB-blank-debian-**** images are flashed with Win32 Disk Imager? It seems to be the easiest way but not sure why it is not done. Thank you. -- 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/7983166f-9533-402d-b7fe-ed4a42406803%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
