how to reinstall base OS on bbb if purge command has been used to uninstall all packages

[Amrinder Singh]

hi all,

i have a beaglebone black and ive somehow ended up using 'apt-get purge *' which i believe has uninstalled the kernel as well. any ideas on how to get out of this situation?

PS: the intent is to use beaglebone black image of kali linux on it but somehow it couldnt be booted from sd card

[Robert Nelson]

You can manually read /var/log/apt/history.log to see what got removed
and when, and then slowly piece together what happened..

But you'll probably just have to start from a fresh image.

Regards,

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[Amrinder Singh]

i could only access the board using remote ssh login and as of now, the board doesnt have an ip address. i tried installing a new image using the microsd card, but it isnt working either. 

[Robert Nelson]

On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 5:45 PM Amrinder Singh
<amrinder...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> i could only access the board using remote ssh login and as of now, the board doesnt have an ip address. i tried installing a new image using the microsd card, but it isnt working either.

Which image did you write to the microSD, and what it "doing" or "not doing"?

[Amrinder Singh]

i wrote debian 7.5 (eMMC flasher) to micro SD card. when i try to boot with or without using the card, all 4 leds of the board remain "ON" continuously. 

[Robert Nelson]

On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 6:14 PM Amrinder Singh
<amrinder...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> i wrote debian 7.5 (eMMC flasher) to micro SD card. when i try to boot with or without using the card, all 4 leds of the board remain "ON" continuously.

Sorry, i'm not debugging 7.5 and that old 3.8.x based kernel from 2014.

Grab the latest SD IoT image:

https://beagleboard.org/latest-images

[Amrinder Singh]

well, i tried using debian10.3-iot but it still isnt working. 

 i powered off the board, then i put the microsd card in the slot and switched the board on keeping the S2 button pressed. there was no activity on the LED lights. and when i dont press the S2 button, all 4 LED lights stay ON continuously. 

[Robert Nelson]

What application did you use to write the image to the microSD?

Ecther.io?

Or that Win32DiskImager (which has been known to be broken for the
last few months..)

[Amrinder Singh]

i used dd. i only have linux/mac.

[jonnymo]

Etcher works with Linux and Mac: 

https://www.balena.io/etcher/

It's fine for uSD cards less than 64GB, otherwise you need to format the card as  ExFAT first. 

Jon

On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 6:10 PM Amrinder Singh <amrinder...@gmail.com> wrote:

i used dd. i only have linux/mac.

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[Amrinder Singh]

thank you so much guys. the issue got resolved. i guess the problem was with the flash software. i was using command line but etcher worked just fine..

thanks again

Regards 

Amrinder

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

On Tue, 12 May 2020 18:21:48 -0700, in gmane.comp.hardware.beagleboard.user
jonnymo <jonnymovo-Re5JQE...@public.gmane.org> wrote:

>Etcher works with Linux and Mac:
>https://www.balena.io/etcher/
>
>It's fine for uSD cards less than 64GB, otherwise you need to format the
>card as ExFAT first.

And if it truly is a Mac, recommend using
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter/ for formatting the card first.


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