It would seem that a piece of "official" documentation ought to be updated then. As of 5:21pm Pacific time on 29MAY2014 http://beagleboard.org/Getting%20Started#update still reflects the old pattern. I'd propose the following sentence be added, "flasher images dated after <insert proper date> automatically power down the board upon completion, thus all 4 USRx LEDs will be off."
Eric On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 7:53 AM, Robert Nelson <robertcnel...@gmail.com> wrote: > So while debugging an issue with the "flasher" script when flashing a > large number of boards. We are yanking power when all 4 led's are on. It > seems to reason, eventually the "flashing" microSD might just get corrupt. > > So in the interest of making the "flashing" microSD more reliable and of > course to mess up every single new user, as every existing blogs/wiki/etc > everywhere will now be wrong. > > The "flashing" is now done when all 4 led's are off. (As the board has > physically been shutdown by the script.) > > * Of course, some os's like ubuntu 14.04 like to just randomly crash when > shutting down with our v3.8.x kernel, so while it "halted*" all 4 led's are > sometimes still on. > > ubuntu 14.04: (it shut down, but randomly the 4 led's are still on) > [ 100.173493] (NULL device *): gadget not registered. > [ 100.187875] System halted > > * Whereas Debian Wheezy it works just fine.. ;) > > So back to your regularly scheduled hacking time! > > 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. > -- 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.
