If you've got a display hooked up, the debian flasher has a custom desktop background that says you've booted the MMC flasher in pretty large text.
On Friday, May 9, 2014 12:36:30 PM UTC-4, ddu...@gmail.com wrote: > > > I downloaded the eMMC flasher image > (images_BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.4-2014-04-23-2gb.img.xz), put on it on a > micro SD card (using dd), and tried the "hold the boot button when powering > on". Firstly I'm pretty concerned at this point that there is no easy way > to know if it is really booting off the micro SD card or the eMMC. I had > to eventually hook up ethernet and ssh in to figure out it was indeed > booting off the debian linux on the micro SD card. > > The very vague instructions say that flashing is done when there is no LED > activity, and they become solid. Very vague indeed. I have no idea why it > is not getting flashed. I am doing the boot up sequence properly, it is > indeed booting up off the micro SD, but all the lights are flashing > randomly until about 30 seconds later when they all blink at the same time, > and remain that way indefinitely. The vague instructions say 45 mins, not > 30 seconds, and the lights should be all on but solid, not flashing. > > Should I be able to ssh into the device when it is flashing? If not then > it is clearly not even trying to flash. > > If there was some documentation on how to check if the flashing is > actually happening or perhaps some way to execute it. > > Advise? > -- 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.
