On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 5:31 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > So apparently I did something stupid. I was booting Kali Linux from an SD > card on my Beaglebone Black rev. B, and I got it in my head that it'd be a > good idea to wipe the eMMC entirely and make it a swap partition. I figured > if I rendered the board unbootable that I could either force it to boot from > the SD card by holding the boot button or I could connect it to a computer > with a USB cable and manually re-flash the eMMC. Well, it did become > unbootable, except the boot button does absolutely nothing and the eMMC > isn't presented as a block device any more. I have an FTDI cable and > watching the serial output at boot I no longer see the usual stuff. The > Beaglebone is now only sending the letter C 8 times. Connecting the USB > cable to a computer creates the usual ethernet interface and I can see DHCP > packets being sent from the Beaglebone as if it's attempted to bootstrap > itself from the USB networking, but that's all that happens. No amount of > Googling has turned up any answers - everything I've read about unbricking > assumes you can at least boot off the SD card. There are some references on > this page to some tools that sound like they might help, but the links are > mostly broken. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to resurrect this > thing or should I just pitch it in the trash?
Reflash: http://beagleboard.org/latest-images 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
