Push and hold the boot button and apply power. http://www.elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack
Gerald On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 3:50 PM, <dmitryp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Good afternoon, > I don't understand how to determine whether the BBB is booting off the SD > card or booting off the internal flash. > Here's what happened, I installed a 4GB image from getting started section > onto my SD card > This was the first image here: > http://beagleboard.org/latest-images > > > Initially I powered on by holding the button next to SD card, It booted > and I could tell it was not the internal image, because it did not have the > demo applications. > > Next, I tried hitting the reset button to see if it will boot off the SD > card again, nothing happened and I could not connect to the BBB any more. I > scanned all ports and it was not available. > > I tried resetting and holding down the button again, but it would not boot > off the SD card. > > Only when I take out the SD card the BBB boots into the original > installation. > > Does anyone know what may have caused this? This is a brand new SD card, > and I doubt I had damaged it by resetting the BBB. > > As far as I understand there are 3 booting options, > > 1. There is booting off internal NAND which only has 70mb (or is this > only a partition > 2. Booting off SD card > 3. "If using BeagleBone Black and the image is meant to program your > on-board eMMC, you'll need to wait while the programming occurs. When the > flashing is complete, all 4 USRx LEDs will be lit solid. *This can > take up to 45 minutes."* > > > What I don't understand is how to select how the device boots. How can I > make it boot off the SD card every time? How do I prevent it from writing > to the NAND? I want to prevent damaging anything by overwriting the NAND > and only work within an SD Card. > > Wouldn't it have been easier to install a jumper to select which memory > the device boots from? > > Thanks, > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
