Hi, I'm new to the BeagleBoneBlack - sorry !! I do have a lot of experience with embedded Atmel processors and programming in general. I have spent hours Googling and trying just about everything I can think of to re-falsh my BBB with Debian 8.4 (Jessie 2016-05-13) with no luck. I'll try and explain; please forgive my newbie-ness to the BBB, my utter frustration and, probably, not providing enough info at this time. Here goes.
I have a BBB running a 2014 Linux Distro (the one the BBB came with). I run on both a Mac mini and a MacBookPro (both 2014 with OSX-Sierra). I can connect to the BBB; mini-USB to Mac (SSH via Terminal) and web-browser (192.168.7.2). I downloaded bone-debian-8.4-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-05-13-4gb.img.xz from BB.org. I unzipped it. I used Raspberry Pi Baker to write the image file to my 4GB uSD card. I managed to boot the BBB from the new Linux Distro (Debian 8.4 - Jessie 2016-05-13). I know this to be the case because a successful login responds with the current Distro version. To my problem : I have tried a lot over the past few weeks and may be little mixed up but : To boot from the uSD card (once I had a new Linux Distro - 2016) on it) I simply held the Boot button depressed whilst cycling the Rest button, waiting till all 4 Usr LEDs lit and releasing the Boot button. Took me a while to get there but... pretty simple in the end. I was under the misconception that this would flash the eMMC. Naturally, upon removal of the uSD card and resetting the BBB I simply ended up with the original (as shipped - 2014) version of the Distro. Repeat the boot-from-uSD sequence again and I was back to the new 2016 Distro. Sweet - kind of ! But not flashing of the eMMC... So, to be fair there is rather a lot of mixed up info on the web. I put this down to the various versions of BBBs and the various Distros etc but... confusing to a total newbie... So, what I THINK I have to do is modify the uEnv.txt file (on my BBB, this is found in the /Boot/uBoot directory) by removing the "#" at the beginning of the line cmdline=init=/opt/scripts/tools/eMMC/init-eMMC-flasher-v3.sh. To be fair my uEnv.txt file doesn't have this line so I copied and pasted it as the last line of the file. I used 'nano' from within Terminal to accomplish this... Unfortunately, rebooting the BBB did not result in an EMC flash - at least no obvious difference in Usr LEDs (no cylon-style 'swiping', no automatic reboot and more and no all-4 Usr LEDs lit - even after an hour or more). I now also find that : -1- rebooting the BBB *without* uSD card inserted results in the original 2014 Distro (eMMC) being loaded, whilst -2- rebooting the BBB *with* uSD card inserted (new Linux 8.4 2016 Distro) results in the BBB's network service (SystemPreferences/Network pane) reporting the BBB trying to connect (it doesn't in fact) with some wierd but fixed IP address. Logging in via Terminal is refused as is trying to land the 192.168.7.2 page from my web browser (both Safari and Chrome)... I have struggled with this for days... Would somebody be able to assist please. Any / all pointers and help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks a million in advance - if only for reading this right to the end ! -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/2b3051ef-6279-452e-903f-fd48b4c3f390%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
