Could you post the complete FTDI serial output of the board booting from the SD card and using the Boot button?
Jon On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 5:17 PM Michael B <[email protected]> wrote: > It is rem'ed out on the SD card. I can't get at any drive on the board > itself since it won't boot. > Using FTDI I can get to the board somewhat but don't know how to LS into > it when it says I am not specifying a proper interface. > All the googling about u-boot is either a generic Help dump that I can see > in the terminal or talks about creating your own u-boot. > > Thanks for the help. > > > > On Thursday, October 31, 2019 at 7:54:11 PM UTC-4, jonnymo wrote: >> >> Have you ensured the 'cmdline=' entry at the bottom of the uEnv.txt file >> is commented out? If not it will try to reflash the board. >> >> Jon >> >> On Thursday, October 31, 2019, Michael B <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> As it stands now I can read the SD and the env file etc. >>> >>> The bbgw won't boot so it does not show the board as a drive on a >>> computer. >>> >>> It just wants to keep flashing from the sd. Remove the sd and power up >>> and it throws an error that the device to copy from doesn't exist. >>> >>> Using boot button does not seem to help. >>> >>> I'm afraid I'm back to trying to get at the board drive in u-boot. I >>> can't find any examples of how to specify the interface and device. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thursday, October 31, 2019 at 6:52:39 PM UTC-4, jonnymo wrote: >>>> >>>> You could always get a Rasberry Pi to read the BB uSD. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Thursday, October 31, 2019, Michael B <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I know about that. It doesn't work. >>>>> Not mine for sure at least with this version of OSX and the latest >>>>> VirtualBox. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks again all for help. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Thursday, October 31, 2019 at 5:35:20 PM UTC-4, jonnymo wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> You just need to assign the USB device to the Virtual Box VM; the >>>>>> native OS does not need to be able to read the filesystem. Also, you >>>>>> could >>>>>> use ext4fuse on you Mac to mount a ext filesystem. Or just Bootcamp your >>>>>> Mac with Linux. However, all of this is why I no longer use Mac systems. >>>>>> >>>>>> On Thursday, October 31, 2019, Michael B <[email protected]> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Thanks Dennie. >>>>>>> I think that is getting me closer. I can now mount the SD on my Mac. >>>>>>> FYI to anyone reading this for similar help: If the Mac doesn't see >>>>>>> the ext4 partition a VirtualBox VM will not work as it doesn't connect >>>>>>> to >>>>>>> the VM at all. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I can now see and edit the uEnv.txt file. >>>>>>> I'm not up and running yet but that gives me some more to play with. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 12:00:32 PM UTC-4, Dennis Bieber >>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 04:05:01 -0700 (PDT), in >>>>>>>> gmane.comp.hardware.beagleboard.user Michael B >>>>>>>> <mike-NEI+xi/[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >- 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. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> https://www.maketecheasier.com/mount-access-ext4-partition-mac/ >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> If you've written a NON-flasher image on the SD card, and >>>>>>>> it still >>>>>>>> tries to run the flasher, you've got a strange eMMC configuration. >>>>>>>> Try >>>>>>>> holding down the boot-select button to force the card to load >>>>>>>> u-Boot from >>>>>>>> SD card (I believe for some years now u-Boot on eMMC is configured >>>>>>>> to >>>>>>>> detect an SD card and then transfer to it to complete booting, but >>>>>>>> that >>>>>>>> implies it is not using the SD card u-Boot) >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> If the boot-select with a non-flasher image works, you >>>>>>>> should be able >>>>>>>> to mount the eMMC and explore it for incorrect configuration files. >>>>>>>> Or zero >>>>>>>> it out so it can't boot from eMMC (and maybe eventually reflash it >>>>>>>> with a >>>>>>>> known working image -- convert the working SD card to flasher). >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> -- >>>>>>>> Dennis L Bieber >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> 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/3337ab28-8663-4fac-8640-df3b1991b1b6%40googlegroups.com >>>>>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/3337ab28-8663-4fac-8640-df3b1991b1b6%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>>>>> . >>>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>> 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/12ecdfd4-71aa-4c5b-985c-3bfc13f813cb%40googlegroups.com >>>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/12ecdfd4-71aa-4c5b-985c-3bfc13f813cb%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>>> . >>>>> >>>> -- >>> 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/500179b4-4a2d-474f-9426-3cc3b3894bc6%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/500179b4-4a2d-474f-9426-3cc3b3894bc6%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- > 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/67401c62-69e2-467f-a08c-504aded453da%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/67401c62-69e2-467f-a08c-504aded453da%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. 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