I’m trying to upgrade my old BBB-A5B to the latest Debian as well. I’m not planning to use emmc.
At the moment I’m always required to press “s2-user boot” button during power up (physical plugin in the cable during the process) in order to boot from microSD with the latest versions. If I use the old image “bone-debian-8.3-lxqt-4gb-armhf-2016-01-24-4gb.img”, the SD boots correctly without the need to use the s2 button every time there is a power interruption or shutdown command (reboot works). Starting without SD card also works fine (Angstrom). With the current Debian 9.1 on SD 3 leds light up (0-3) and stay on without blinking (more than 6h tested). Same with Debian 8.7, 9.2. *Johncarp*, Can you help me by confirming that you got the same issue booting from SD – Debian 9.1 or 9.2 without pressing “s2 - user boot” button when you plug the power cable in. Perhaps it’s a malfunction in my BBB almost 2 years up and running. Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 12:20:23 UTC+1 schreef johncarp...@gmail.com: > > 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/b9df7eb1-f866-4b5f-b46a-4ddcf66cf967%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
