Great questions. Thanks so much for helping here. :) --- TL:DR: - I cannot read or write to the SD card on my computer after transferring the image to the SD card. It's in a format the computer does not like (osx catalina). Therefore, I do not know how to turn off the flash option in /boot/... to stop it from trying to reflash. - I am not having luck figuring out how to access the image in u-boot over FTDI cable. - I am using the current image from the download page. I have also tried others, including the one called Flasher. I could be messing this up somehow and under the delusion that it's working when it's not. ---
Longer explanation: I am using the images found on the Getting Started page -> Download the latest ... http://beagleboard.org/latest-images On my mac (running Catalina) I use the following command to write the image to an sd card. sudo gdd bs=1M if=bone-debian-9.9-lxqt-armhf-2019-08-03-4gb.img of=/dev/rdisk2s1 status=progress I then eject the card place it in the BBGW and boot it. It flashes over. I remove the card and start the BBGW. Watching the boot through the FTDI, I see it is trying to flash again. I know about the setting in /boot//uEnv.txt However, I cannot read the SD card on my computer once it's written the image from the gdd process above. It gives me a warning when I plug it into my mac that asks me if I want to initialize, ignore or eject. I have of course tried all 3. In Disk Utility it doesn't even show up as a drive. It doesn't show up using "df -h" and most importantly, it isn't showing as a drive where I can edit the uEnv.txt file and rem out the flash property. Through the terminal I can hit space when I boot the board and go into u-boot. I can view the environment variables but I can't figure out the commands to even see if the /boot dir is accessible. I can't seem to find how to enumerate the "interfaces" in u-boot. I am going to bring the SD card to work and see if I can read the card there. Also, I wonder if I should go a different route (different computer) to create the SD card to begin with. I have seen some tutorials showing the manual formatting of the partitions, coping the image and making it bootable. The suggested tool for the Mac has been not working for a couple of years and the developer isn't updating it. So on my Mac, the (g)dd command is the only way. I will be trying to get my hands on a Windows PC tonight and see if I have better luck with the SD card there. Thanks all for the help. I know it's going to end up being one simple thing that I am missing. At least the tinkering is fun. :) Michael B -- 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/c7aebb99-5206-4d1a-9aa0-d1036224e871%40googlegroups.com.
