Thanks for the response William, I followed the directions online to put in a formatted uSD card with firmware, held the boot button down (it's a momentary push button, not an on/off switch) while plugging in a 3S Lipo (12V). No booting from uSD happens . To double check I viewed the process on YouTube (for BB Black) to make sure I was doing what was expected.
What do you think? I realize these boards are new (says Beaglebone Blue Rev A2 on back) but I hope there isn't some sort of defect with them. I used a DMM to verify that the push buttons are shorted when depressed. Anything obvious I'm missing? On Thursday, March 30, 2017 at 12:31:22 PM UTC-7, William Hermans wrote: > > Hello, > > I do not have a beaglebone blue personally, but if you mentioned it I'm > not seeing if you switched the boot switch or not. > > > https://github.com/beagleboard/beaglebone-blue/blob/master/docs/BeagleBone_Blue_ShortSpec.pdf > > Scroll down to the "balloon" diagram, and look at the switch that is > nearly opposite of the 5v barrel jack. > > On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 12:31 AM, Ted Carancho <tedca...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Help! My BBBL just arrived Monday and was in the middle of porting my >> quadcopter code to it. I was able to get 9DOF measurements from it and >> decided to take it to the library with me, so I put it back into the static >> bag it came with, placed it in the original box in between the ESD foam it >> came with and placed it into my backpack. When I took it out, I found that >> it was unresponsive. I thought maybe I somehow bricked it by not doing a >> shutdown -h before unplugging it, so I tried to follow online directions on >> booting from an external uSD card. >> >> If I power the board from USB or an external 3S Lipo, all I see is the >> blue ON LED, the LIPO status LED stuck at 75, and the G and R LED's on >> (picture below). If I press the SD button with the uSD already plugged in >> and apply power, I don't see any blinking lights that tell me it's booting >> from the uSD card. >> >> >> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Yc4XsOXH3Mo/WNyzdyE9ZfI/AAAAAAAAAUU/mO37vRZfgvs50Sxu9LFfIMP8Y4SxJQ0BACLcB/s1600/BBBL.JPG> >> >> >> I've tried the Debian 8.7 2017-03-19 >> <https://debian.beagleboard.org/images/bone-debian-8.7-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-03-19-4gb.img.xz> >> IoT >> and Debian 8.7 2017-03-19 >> <https://debian.beagleboard.org/images/bone-debian-8.7-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2017-03-19-4gb.img.xz> >> LXQT >> firmware, I tried a 8GB and a 32GB uSDHC card, I tried 2 different USB >> cables. When plugged into a USB port, I can't find the network access >> point to be able to login using 192.168.7.2, and also I can't ping the >> device over it's wireless network after I had configured the wifi using >> connman. >> >> I'm starting to think that the hardware was somehow damaged (but I felt I >> took appropriate ESD considerations, and transported it in its box). >> >> This is my first beagle bone product ever (but have used many Arduino's, >> RPI and Intel Edison). Is there some newbie mistake I'm making? Thanks >> for your help in advance! >> >> >> -- >> 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...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/650cec52-89c4-4503-89cb-6e83631afc8a%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/650cec52-89c4-4503-89cb-6e83631afc8a%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/b79e2918-e7b4-44cf-b350-9991b9483847%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.