On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 8:42 PM, not you <nguyen.tnho...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have been using Win32 Disk Imager to flash the SD card with > BBB-blank-debian-**** images. Then, I insert the SD card, hold the S2 > button and plug in the power cord (until the LED's start flashing). This > flashes BBB and gives me a fresh BBB ran from eMMC. > Now, I want to boot BBB from SD card, and I have tried various methods to no > avail.
Don't use Win32 Disk Imager, grab: https://etcher.io/ > > Methods: > 1. Renaming bbb-uEnv.txt on eMMC and/or the SD card to uEnv.txt then reboot > with SD card plugged in does boot from SD card. However, it keeps > reflashing the eMMC and does not run off the SD card as desired. Don't use that file, it's not for that. > 2. Renaming MLO (option 2, as per this guide: > http://www.erdahl.io/2016/12/beaglebone-black-booting-from-sd-by.html) gets > BBB to boot off the SD card. Then, it attempts to reflash the eMMC, and > gets stuck at 'Setting LEDs to.' Not sure how I can fix this problem. That's not the problem. ;) > > 3. Following eewiki guide > (https://eewiki.net/display/linuxonarm/BeagleBone+Black) previously got me a > BBB running on SD card. However, it is a minimalist debian > (debian-9.3-minimal-armhf-2017-12-09.tar.xz), and not one with GUI. I am > trying to redo that > with debian-9.3-lxqt-2gb-armhf-2017-12-24.tar.xz, but I need to rebuild > everything again, as TI BSP for 4.9 real-time kernel broke and just got > fixed hours ago. (As per > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/beagleboard/%22not$20you%22%7Csort:date/beagleboard/puF5-A3hp44/TbN7HYNyBQAJ) > > Questions: > 1. Are the problems I encounter in methods 1 and 2 are because the > bone-debian-**** images being flashing images, and not meant to create > bootable SD cards? They are meant to be bootable.... > 2. I previously tried flashing with bone-debian-**** images and they did not > work. Any idea on this? Show us your serial boot log... > > 3. How can I fix problem in method 2 above? > > 4. Is there any image on http://rcn-ee.net that can be used to create a > readily bootable SD card the way the BBB-blank-debian-**** images are > flashed with Win32 Disk Imager? It seems to be the easiest way but not sure > why it is not done. "if" only the blank ones boot, we might have a bigger issue, please run: sudo /opt/scripts/tools/version.sh Regards, -- Robert Nelson https://rcn-ee.com/ -- 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/CAOCHtYi6_oyc6K6LqDOzby8dYt6p2DzV77efx48XH%3DnwDHfnEg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
