Since my SD card was already booting successfully, I just went ahead and cleared the nand. Mission accomplished, BeagleBoard boots the SD card when I give it power.
Thank you for the helpful advice. On Monday, April 7, 2014 8:51:47 AM UTC-4, RobertCNelson wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 7:43 AM, djbbrisson <djbbr...@gmail.com<javascript:>> > wrote: > > My BeagleBoard has been collecting dust for a few years and recently had > a > > need to revive it. I took it out of the static bag and got to work. > > > > To make a long story short I have re-flashed the NAND. > > Source: http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoard#Rev_C4 > > > > I have loaded Debian 7 via a netinstall image on an 8GB SD Card. This > is > > ultimately what I want to use on the BB C4. > > > > I have set SD Card to boot by default using > > set bootcmd 'mmc init ; fatload mmc 0:1 0x80000000 uimage ; bootm' ; > saveenv > > source: http://elinux.org/BeagleBoard_Community#MMC.2FSD_boot > > > > Unfortunately, this doesn't work, I get "Wrong Image Format for bootm > > command" & "ERROR: can't get kernel image!" messages on boot. > > See http://pastebin.com/XizcZUCB for complete boot capture. > > > > After the above, if I press reset while holding the User button, the SD > Card > > boots just fine. > > > > After all that, here is my question. > > > > What do I need to do to make the SD Card the default boot up device? > > You have a really old verison of u-boot installed in "nand" that's > getting in the way. > > See for hints: > > http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu#Upgrade_X-loader_and_U-boot > > With the C4's i usually just clear the nand and trust that the microSD > has the correct u-boot vs just flashing nand. > > Regards, > > -- > Robert Nelson > http://www.rcn-ee.com/ > -- 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/d/optout.
