On Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at 7:42 AM Alice Crichton <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey guys > > Currently, I don't have the ability to set up my own image, so I went with > the Machinekit.io suggestion of just flashing the pre-existing file on > elinux. The current version (2019/12/16) I could not get fully functional for > the life of me, I got past the login easily enough, and then it just sits > there with the cursor indefinitely. I spent about two days working on it, > trying different things to get it to run, with no luck. This morning, after > working through the night I realized for the sake of a sanity check I should > flash other things to check if it was my process, and managed to install > Debian, and then I attempted to hunt for an older image to try. Me and a > friend searched for about an hour for something prebuilt, and couldn't find > any backdated ones, so eventually I resorted to Wayback Machine, and the next > closest I could find was from 2017. I got that one working with no trouble, > but it doesn't seem to have support for my board (CRAMPS) and is, I'm sure, > missing out on all the cool tech you guys have been working on for the past > two years. > > I know you guys are normally a little more intense than "I screwed up > installing" and I wouldn't want to be the annoying noob with the idiot > question, but I've been working on solving this for around 2.5 days and all > I've got seems to point to "Something is wrong with the latest prebuilt > image". I've worked with a few singleboard computers in the past, and I > worked in QA for software for a bit, so I'm trying my best to point at the > problem, but I don't have the linux chops to know exactly what's going wrong > here. My old Ubuntu machine fried around 6 years ago and I haven't had the > time or courage to go back since. The only other thing I can think of is the > (brand new) beaglebone was actually just ancient stock, and is no longer > supported by the current update? > > If anyone can point me in the right direction I'd be very grateful, I'm > already quite a ways into this project in both time and money, and was hoping > to have some steppers spinning by christmas.
Currently there is no maintainer for the BeagleBone MachineKit image: Here is the config file, patches welcome.. https://github.com/beagleboard/image-builder/blob/master/configs/machinekit-debian-stretch.conf It still get's built once a week, as that part is automated. But as you can see, no one really boots or tests it anymore.. Regards, -- Robert Nelson https://rcn-ee.com/ -- website: http://www.machinekit.io blog: http://blog.machinekit.io github: https://github.com/machinekit --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Machinekit" 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/machinekit/CAOCHtYgt%2B-aOpqqDe73y64HJkRiAhtDnm_G6U_FqeT-M%3Dairuw%40mail.gmail.com.
