Sorry if this is answered somewhere, I looked around and couldn't find anything on it in this forum.
Someone gave me a BBB to play with, it has Debian 7.x on it, I would like to upgrade it to the latest OS image. I went to this page (http://beagleboard.org/getting-started#step2) and am following the instructions. I downloaded an image onto my macbook from this page - https://beagleboard.org/latest-images. I chose Debian 9.2 2017-10-10 4GB SD IoT <https://debian.beagleboard.org/images/bone-debian-9.2-iot-armhf-2017-10-10-4gb.img.xz> . I used Etcher to burn the image onto a microSD card. I inserted the card into the slot on the BBB, held down the User Boot button, inserted the power cord, waited until the four LEDs went off, then let go of the button. No joy. I was only booting from the microSD card, not flashing the image into the eMMC. I tried to follow the directions to convert the image to a "flasher". The file that I am supposed to modify (/boot/uEnv.txt) was not in the specified directory. However, I did find it in the /boot/uboot folder. However when I edited it, the line that was I was supposed to uncomment was not there. The script that the non-existent line was supposed to run ( cmdline=init=/opt/scripts/tools/eMMC/init-eMMC-flasher-v3.sh) also is nowhere to be found. The system boots just fine from the microSD card, so i think the image on there is ok. So... what do I try next? -- 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/fa6acfe1-c8c6-4afa-bb96-7e521f72a3cb%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
