> > > > *Second, the fact that booting the image flashed your eMMC is not cool. I > was in fact wondering whether it would or not. The documentation is silent > about this question, and the file name of the image contains no suggestion > that it flashes the eMMC. On AskUbuntu, someone actually asked whether > there is a flasher > image:http://askubuntu.com/questions/713604/snappy-on-beaglebone-black-or-green > <http://askubuntu.com/questions/713604/snappy-on-beaglebone-black-or-green>*
>From what I noticed, on the first partition ( vfat ) there are two boot options. One strictly boot, and one flash. e.g. two different initrd's etc. On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 11:01 PM, Hilmar Lapp <hl...@drycafe.net> wrote: > Thanks much for your efforts. For one, your results were the final nudge I > needed to buy a USB to TTL serial debug cable. It’s possible that I didn’t > have enough patience with LEDs all dark and not being able to see any > indications of it actually booting. From booting the BeagleBoard Debian > Wheezy images from uSD I was used to seeing the LEDs come on very quickly, > so I was apparently mistaken to assume this would be the same for the > Snappy Core image. > > Second, the fact that booting the image flashed your eMMC is not cool. I > was in fact wondering whether it would or not. The documentation is silent > about this question, and the file name of the image contains no suggestion > that it flashes the eMMC. On AskUbuntu, someone actually asked whether > there is a flasher image: > http://askubuntu.com/questions/713604/snappy-on-beaglebone-black-or-green > > The answer basically repeats the documentation from developer.ubuntu.com > (which does not say anything about flashing versus not), and upon being > specifically asked in the comments by people for whom the image failed to > flash the eMMC, the poster admits they don’t know about that part. I also > tried to glean the answer from the snappy-boot.txt file that it uses > instead of the uEnv.txt, but there’s nothing in there that obviously > indicates that the eMMC will be flashed. > > To me, whether booting the image will or will not flash your eMMC is a > rather important distinction, so to me this is a red flag. On top of that, > based on what I can find 15.04 is *only* available as Snappy Core for armhf > systems, which means that even just basic things such as installing apache > become a huge hassle: > > http://askubuntu.com/questions/694397/how-to-install-apache-on-a-raspberry-pi-2-ubuntu-snappy-core > > Based on this experience, while they have nice looking websites, I’m > afraid the Ubuntu folks don’t have their act together for Ubuntu on BBB, > and as a consequence I’ll stay away from them and their images for now. > > -hilmar > > On Jan 1, 2016, at 11:57 PM, doog <doug.la...@gmail.com> wrote: > > for whatever reason I could not get it to boot back into the uSD and it > started to go back to flashing(cylon eyes). I looked at the partitions and > there were only 2. After re-imaging the uSD card, I saw 4 partitions. And > while I was re-imaging I tried to boot from eMMC and it would not, the > failed flashing left the eMMC goofed up. > > But the good news is, once I finished re-imaging, I booted and got back > into Ubuntu Snappy Core. Another thing of interest is that while I held > down the S2/User/Boot button I didn't get any LEDs lit but it started > booting into the uSD card so I let go of the button. It took a minute of > booting/testing before it went to town and started loading from uSD(ie LEDs > ablaze). > > I don't know why the 32G Samsung didn't work but I may have forgot what's > the max uSD size for BBB is. > > -- > 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/6_I1Ox9-sms/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. > > > -- > Hilmar Lapp -:- lappland.io > > > > -- > 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.
