You don't have to short anything out for what he is describing to happen. The BBB-Sitara uses a field of 100K resistors, which are either pull-ups or pull-downs on 15 different lines, pinned out from P8-31 through P8-46, which instructs it how to boot.
Any load on any of these pins, of lower than several hundred thousand Ohms, can derail the boot process. You can only load those pins after the Sitara has completed booting. BBB System Reference Manual, Version C1, page 106. --- Graham == On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 1:26 PM, <smith.winston....@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Monday, April 6, 2015 at 2:32:55 PM UTC-4, star...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> Hello there, I have been working on a robotics project using the >> beaglebone black and have just run into some difficulty. >> >> I am using a protocape for holding all of my circuitry to various >> sensors. While the protoboard is connected, the board turns on but does not >> boot. When I disconnect the protocape, my board turns on and boots >> normally. This happened in between runs with no changes made. >> > > Sounds to me like you're shorting something on your protocape. Check your > pin usage, particularly the power/gnd pins. Also look for shorts on the > protoboard (again, pwr/gnd lines), I know it's easy to make mistakes on the > protoboards. > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beagleboard/aTIZkGGlNdI/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, 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.
