I found this Antminer D3 BeagleBone Black and wanted to see if I can do something useful with it. It has BeagleBone_Black_V2.1 and PCB RevB5 silkscreened on its PCB with date code 1742. It's missing the USB host, micro USB connector, power jack, reset and boot buttons. But it has the micro SD slot and it can boot from its internal storage. The internal storage looks like just a NAND chip instead of eMMC but the markings are gone and its not really important to me, SD boot is enough.
So I soldered on the boot button, used etcher to flash the newest image onto SD card and tried to boot from it. And nothing happened, it starts booting from internal storage. After a few days of googling I found about the change from older style of booting from FAT16 partition to the newer RAW boot. So I flashed the Debian 7.5 image that still used that older stile of partition layout and it booted right up and as far as I can tell everything works (can't see the internal storage but that seems to be the problem of this old kernel). But, that Debian version is so old and even after changing all of the repository lists to archive and playing around with certificates it still throws a bunch of TSL connection errors whenever I try to update anything. So the question is: Is there any way to make it boot in RAW mode or is there any way to make Debian 10 (or some other modern version) image in the older FAT16 boot style? And how would I go about doing either? Thanks 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+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/daa6e166-1632-4653-86f3-3dec77d287d7o%40googlegroups.com.
