Re: [beagleboard] Re: BBB doesn't boot after inserting uSD card having linux, even after pressing the S2 button for long

2016-09-21 Thread Viswadeep Sarangi
Hi William, I finally got the Board working !!! Right now, it's booting from the uSD card. The OS in the eMMC is still causing problems though, but at least it's working somehow now. I downloaded the image : https://debian.beagleboard.org/images/bone-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-13-4gb.i

Re: [beagleboard] Re: BBB doesn't boot after inserting uSD card having linux, even after pressing the S2 button for long

2016-09-20 Thread William Hermans
zImage is the old way Robert *used* to build kernels. As in . . . http://www.embeddedhobbyist.com/2013/07/beaglebone-black-usb-boot/ Look towards the bottom where I discuss mkimage. But anyway that post I made way back in july 2013, and it's very outdated. It's not how things are done any more. Bu

Re: [beagleboard] Re: BBB doesn't boot after inserting uSD card having linux, even after pressing the S2 button for long

2016-09-20 Thread Viswadeep Sarangi
Hi William, I couldn't find anything in the uEnv.txt having uname. I am attaching the uEnv.txt file here again for reference. The BBB currently has a flashed Ubuntu image from : https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/2016-09-09/flasher/BBB-eMMC-flasher-ubuntu-16.04.1-console-armhf-2016-09-09-2gb.img.xz And

Re: [beagleboard] Re: BBB doesn't boot after inserting uSD card having linux, even after pressing the S2 button for long

2016-09-19 Thread William Hermans
As with anything else computer related. You should be mindful of where you get your OS images from. Clearly the one the OP is working with is not a standard "official" image. Since Robert has not built any using a FAT partition in quite some time. As in more than a year ago. So in order to get bet

Re: [beagleboard] Re: BBB doesn't boot after inserting uSD card having linux, even after pressing the S2 button for long

2016-09-19 Thread William Hermans
Ah, and right. This value can be modified in order to reflect a known working kernel. Or "point" to a known working kernel. If you know what you're doing . . . Which is not very simple to explain but not overly hard either. For instance: $ ls /boot/ SOC.shconfig-4.4.14-ti-r

Re: [beagleboard] Re: BBB doesn't boot after inserting uSD card having linux, even after pressing the S2 button for long

2016-09-19 Thread William Hermans
On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 21:19:49 -0700 (PDT), Viswadeep Sarangi > declaimed the > following: > > > {I was running late getting to work and missed this part} > > >The contents of the FAT partition include : > >- a "dtbs" directory, w