If the firmware update uSD is bootable, upon booting you should see all four status LEDs blinking sporadically within 10-20 seconds, not just PWR. So the first thing I'd worry about is that you used the proper steps to create a valid bootable uSD image. For me the OS update process takes somewhere between 50-70 minutes.
On Saturday, November 9, 2013 12:43:34 PM UTC-5, napol...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Hello all, > > I've just gotten ahold of my BBB and have been my efforts to make the > first software update have been for naught. > > Insofar, these are the steps I've taken for updating the software: > > -I've loaded the first listed Angstrom Distribution to my uSD > > -I put the card into the BBB and held the BOOT button before powering the > board. > > ================== > I usually get either of the following results: > -------PWR LED lights up next to the 5V input (This occured when trying to > boot from a plug-in USB and USB port from my computer) > -------Occasionally my computer gets sassy and says that it "Cannot find > an AM335x USB driver". (I downloaded, unzipped all the driver stuff for W7 > and could navigate to it on Chrome, no other driver stuff installed beyond > this). > ================== > > > I've searched all over for documentation on this and have come up pretty > short. So my questions are as follows: > -- Is there something I missed that could tell me what's going on? > --If not, would anyone know what's up? > --If no again, would anyone know an alternative booting > method so I could start trying to mess around on this thing :p? > > So I'm definitely new as all getout and will go ahead and apologize for > probably bringing the least technically adept post to this board. Apologies > also if this has already been addressed, a link would be great. Any help > would be greatly appreciated and thanks in advance :). > -- 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 beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
