On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Brian Piccioni <nairb1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello and thank you in advance for the help.
>
> I know that, in general, this topic has been addressed before. I looked
> through all the posts, followed whatever methods, etc., were suggested but I
> can't get it to work (it being cloning my eMMC on one BBB to another BBB).
>
> I live in rural Canada and downloading costs me $10/gb so I am cautious
> about downloading stuff unless i have to, etc..
>
> My 'source' system is Ubuntu 13.04 (GNU/Linux 3.8.13-bone21 armv7l).
> Initially my target was an 'out of the box' BBB.
>
> I booted the 'source' system from an Anstrom 'bootable' microSD, mounted a
> USB drive, in the USB directory I executed
>
>         dd if=/dev/mmcblk1 of=BeagleBoneBlack-eMMC-image-Jan52014.img bs=10M
>
> The command completed with no errors and a reassuring amount of data copied
> (1.9gb)
>
> Then I booted the 'destination' system from an Anstrom 'bootable' microSD,
> mounted my USB drive, and in the USB directory executed
>
>         dd if=BeagleBoneBlack-eMMC-image-Jan52014.img of=/dev/mmcblk1 bs=10M
>
> Again, the command completed with no errors and a reassuring amount of data
> copied (1.9gb)
>
>
> Unfortunately, when I boot the destination machine, nothing much happens
> except a flashing LED. I can't SSH into the board and it doesn't even show
> up on my network.

well get a usb-serial adapter and it'll tell you why it can't boot...

>
> Figuring there was something Ubuntu related I flashed the destination BBB
> with Ubuntu 12.4, which I had around. It worked fine, however, when I
> repeated the above procedure (including booting Angstrom off microSD) I got
> the same result.
>
>
> I wonder if there is something wrong with my eMMC partion table on the
> source BBB (even though it works fine). When I execute fdisk -l I get the
> following (note the doesn't contain a valid partition table reports)
>
> Disk /dev/mmcblk1: 1920 MB, 1920991232 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 233 cylinders, total 3751936 sectors
> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x00000000
>
>         Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/mmcblk1p1   *          63      144584       72261    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
> /dev/mmcblk1p2          144585     3743144     1799280   83  Linux
>
> Disk /dev/mmcblk1boot1: 1 MB, 1048576 bytes
> 4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 32 cylinders, total 2048 sectors
> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x00000000
>
> Disk /dev/mmcblk1boot1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
>
> Disk /dev/mmcblk1boot0: 1 MB, 1048576 bytes
> 4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 32 cylinders, total 2048 sectors
> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x00000000
>
> Disk /dev/mmcblk1boot0 doesn't contain a valid partition table

ignore the "/dev/mmcblk1bootX" they are not used in this system..

> I would be very grateful if somebody could tell me what I am doing wrong.

your debugging blind, grab a usb-serial adapter and you can easily see
what's wrong..

Regards,

-- 
Robert Nelson
http://www.rcn-ee.com/

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