I have recently got my BBB up and running, and if you ask me, flashing to eMMC is actually the bugbear of it, in my experience so far. It sounds like you are already more experienced than with this sort of thing, but there actually is more to the so-called flashing than simply holding the S2 button down when plugging your BBB. So, make sure you follow these steps <https://medium.com/@zageollc/updating-the-software-image-on-a-beaglebone-black-fc73ffcc700> precisely. It may take you an extra few minutes to read the instruction and accomplish the task, but you'll do so once and for all.
Good luck On Thursday, March 28, 2019 at 11:41:04 PM UTC+3, Robert Heller wrote: > > OK, my BeagleBone Black today. I don't have the MicroSD card I ordered > for > it, but decided to fire it up with the USB cable it came with. Much to my > supprise, it actually booted Debian 7. The USB <=> Networking worked > (even on > my older CentOS 6 kernel). I'm guessing this is on the internal 4Gig > Flash > memory. It made no attempt to get an IP address for the Ethernet when I > jacked it into my LAN though... > > My questions: > > When I get my MicroSD card and dd Debian 9 onto it, will I need to do > anything > special to make it boot from the MicroSD card and not the internal Flash? > > I'm guessing that the Debian 7 image on the Flash memory might just not be > set > up to fire up the Ethernet and get an IP address for it. Is this right? > > -- > Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 > Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services > http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services > [email protected] <javascript:> -- Webhosting Services > > -- 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/7e6f8f21-fab3-4202-a1bd-ae8745a5865d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
