On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Eric Fort <eric.f...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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."
Thanks for the concrete suggestion. Please check the updated wording for clarity. > > 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. -- 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.
