Totally confused. ubuntu-14.04-console-armhf-2014-08-13.tar.xz sd card installs Debian, not Ubuntu

[Alan Federman]

I did an SD card install of ubuntu 14-04 console following the script instructions on eLinix -  I ended up with a Debian console. 

 I do not have an ubuntu as a user or temppwd.  I do have a Debian console with user set to debian.  Looks great.  Not what I want or expected.  I can login as debian, temppwd.

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 Excerpt from instructions --- 

Default user: ubuntu pass: temppwd

Get prebuilt image:

wget https://rcn-ee.net/deb/rootfs/trusty/ubuntu-14.04-console-armhf-2014-08-13.tar.xz

Verify Image with:

md5sum ubuntu-14.04-console-armhf-2014-08-13.tar.xz

029df8a9afe211516b1e2ed9f4897b40  ubuntu-14.04-console-armhf-2014-08-13.tar.xz

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I installed to sd card on a laptop -  after booting from sd card in BBB:

debian@*****'s password:*temppwd*

debian@beaglebone:~$ uname -a

Linux beaglebone 3.8.13-bone47 #1 SMP Fri Apr 11 01:36:09 UTC 2014 armv7l GNU/Linux

debian@beaglebone:/etc$ cat os-release

PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 7 (wheezy)"

NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"

VERSION_ID="7"

VERSION="7 (wheezy)"

ID=debian

ANSI_COLOR="1;31"

HOME_URL="http://www.debian.org/"

SUPPORT_URL="http://www.debian.org/support/"

BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.debian.org/"

[Robert Nelson]

Hold the boot button down, it default to eMMC.

Regards,

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[William Pretty Security]

 

Did you hold down the Boot button, near the USB connector ?

If not it will boot from eMMC which has Debian ;-)

 

 

"No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing" Edmond Burke (1729 - 1797)

http://www.packtpub.com/building-a-home-security-system-with-beaglebone/book

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[Alan Federman]

GRRR.  I have been booting from the sd cards for months, and didn't have to hold down the boot button. I just tested this and my older sd images on either BBB boot from the SD card  without holding the boot button down. Indded with the SD card out they boot to debian.

So what magick makes the BBB automatically boot from the SDcard first if present without holding the boot botton?   

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[Charles Steinkuehler]

On 9/25/2014 4:15 PM, Alan Federman wrote:
> GRRR. I have been booting from the sd cards for months, and didn't have to
> hold down the boot button. I just tested this and my older sd images on
> either BBB boot from the SD card without holding the boot button down.
> Indded with the SD card out they boot to debian.
>
> So what magick makes the BBB automatically boot from the SDcard first if
> present without holding the boot botton?

If you're using newer uSD images, you need to flash the eMMC with the
latest boot loader. That will get you back to booting off the uSD card
by default (if present), *AND* you'll be able to "apt-get install" new
kernels!

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[Robert Nelson]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Alan Federman <alan.f...@gmail.com> wrote:
> GRRR. I have been booting from the sd cards for months, and didn't have to
> hold down the boot button. I just tested this and my older sd images on
> either BBB boot from the SD card without holding the boot button down.
> Indded with the SD card out they boot to debian.
>
>
> So what magick makes the BBB automatically boot from the SDcard first if
> present without holding the boot botton?

There's a file in the root dircectory:

/bbb-uEnv.txt

rename to:

/uEnv.txt

aka

sudo mv /bbb-uEnv.txt /uEnv.txt

It'll work with "old" bootloader in eMMC.

[Alan Federman]

Thanks Robert. 

Sometimes I feel like finding the right answer for the BBB is like searching for used chewing gum in a chicken coop. I've now been able to do several of the Forest project exercises (0-3,5) the PWM fails because it refers to ocp.2, and I have ocp.3. So I am now a happy camper.  Are you going to write a BBB for Dummies book?

[William Pretty Security]

That’s actually a good idea Alan !

 

Unfortunately, by the time it was published, it would be out of date L

You appear to be having the same problems as I did and still do to some extent.

 

I wish there was a web search engine that allowed you to exclude pages older than a certain date.

It seems that every time I find the answer to a problem, it turns out to be three years old !

 

I also haven’t had a lot of luck posting here either …..

[Alan Federman]

I can now boot off the SD card -  needed to unmount the sdcard, modify the /BOOT   (/dev/sdX1)  and sync(important) before putting back into the BBB.  This took me a little longer then expected, because I had a flaky carrier, that kept flicking the write protect on every time I mounted the SD in my laptop.

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