Updating Old A6 BeagleBone Black

[Mark A. Yoder]

I've dug up and old BeagleBone Black A6 that has Angstrom on the eMMC.  It won't boot off an SD with a current image (** Invalid partition 2 **).

How do I update it to run a current image?

--Mark

[Robert Nelson]

Hold the "boot" button, insert power. ;)

Regards,

--
Robert Nelson
https://rcn-ee.com/

[Mark A. Yoder]

I've tried that and it doesn't work.  Here's what I get:

U-Boot SPL 2013.04-dirty (Jul 10 2013 - 14:02:53)

musb-hdrc: ConfigData=0xde (UTMI-8, dyn FIFOs, HB-ISO Rx, HB-ISO Tx, SoftConn)

musb-hdrc: MHDRC RTL version 2.0

musb-hdrc: setup fifo_mode 4

musb-hdrc: 28/31 max ep, 16384/16384 memory

USB Peripheral mode controller at 47401000 using PIO, IRQ 0

musb-hdrc: ConfigData=0xde (UTMI-8, dyn FIFOs, HB-ISO Rx, HB-ISO Tx, SoftConn)

musb-hdrc: MHDRC RTL version 2.0

musb-hdrc: setup fifo_mode 4

musb-hdrc: 28/31 max ep, 16384/16384 memory

USB Host mode controller at 47401800 using PIO, IRQ 0

OMAP SD/MMC: 0

mmc_send_cmd : timeout: No status update

reading u-boot.img

reading u-boot.img

U-Boot 2013.04-dirty (Jul 10 2013 - 14:02:53)

I2C:   ready

DRAM:  512 MiB

WARNING: Caches not enabled

NAND:  No NAND device found!!!

0 MiB

MMC:   OMAP SD/MMC: 0, OMAP SD/MMC: 1

*** Warning - readenv() failed, using default environment

musb-hdrc: ConfigData=0xde (UTMI-8, dyn FIFOs, HB-ISO Rx, HB-ISO Tx, SoftConn)

musb-hdrc: MHDRC RTL version 2.0

musb-hdrc: setup fifo_mode 4

musb-hdrc: 28/31 max ep, 16384/16384 memory

USB Peripheral mode controller at 47401000 using PIO, IRQ 0

musb-hdrc: ConfigData=0xde (UTMI-8, dyn FIFOs, HB-ISO Rx, HB-ISO Tx, SoftConn)

musb-hdrc: MHDRC RTL version 2.0

musb-hdrc: setup fifo_mode 4

musb-hdrc: 28/31 max ep, 16384/16384 memory

USB Host mode controller at 47401800 using PIO, IRQ 0

Net:   <ethaddr> not set. Validating first E-fuse MAC

cpsw, usb_ether

Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0

gpio: pin 53 (gpio 53) value is 1

mmc0 is current device

micro SD card found

mmc0 is current device

gpio: pin 54 (gpio 54) value is 1

SD/MMC found on device 0

** File not found uEnv.txt **

gpio: pin 55 (gpio 55) value is 1

** Invalid partition 2 **

[Robert Nelson]

On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 10:31 AM, Mark A. Yoder <mark.a...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've tried that and it doesn't work. Here's what I get:
>
> U-Boot SPL 2013.04-dirty (Jul 10 2013 - 14:02:53)
> musb-hdrc: ConfigData=0xde (UTMI-8, dyn FIFOs, HB-ISO Rx, HB-ISO Tx,
> SoftConn)

It's still reading from the eMMC first. .;)

Sometimes my thumb doesn't work right, then i just short the pin
connected to the push button to GND

[Mark A. Yoder]

Well that was the problem, it's now happily reflashing the eMMC.

Thanks for the help...

--Mark