BBB RevB with Debian 7.5 image

[Ray Madigan]

I have two Rev B beaglebone blacks. One I never used since I bought it. I recently ordered a Rev C to use for my project but I thought I might as well try to make some use the one I have never used. I wanted to put Debian 7.5 on the device so it would be similar to the one I will get in a couple of days.

I first booted the device with the factory installed Angstrom distribution. It worked well.
I then downloaded the image from http://beagleboard.org/latest-images

I downloaded 

Older Debian images
BeagleBone Black (eMMC flasher)
Debian 7.5 (BeagleBone Black - 2GB eMMC) 2014-05-14 - more info - bittorrent - md5: 74615fb680af8f252c034d3807c9b4ae

I put the image on a microSd card, held the boot button down until it started to echo info to the display

It booted and the screen showed in red letters that it was a temporary installation and I needed to flash to the eMMC. I used the terminal program and it seemed to work. I didn't have time to flash it so I shut it down.

A couple of hours later I went back to try it again and it would not boot the original Angstrom, the blue led's all stay on and nothing happens. If I try to load the Debian image I get 3 lines on the display that I will post next. 

[25.132791] libphy: PHY 4a101000.mdio:01 not found
[25.137954] net etho: phy 4a101000.mdio.01 not found on slave 1
[28.305991] tilcdc 4830e000.fb: timeout waiting framedone

Then it waits a period and seems go go to neverlnd. The display responds that it has lost its signal.

Any help would be useful.

Useful responses might be something like:

Sorry dude, your device is now bricked.
or
Maybe you can get better response here
or 
Advice on how to reset the device or something.

Thank you

[Robert Nelson]

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 12:05 PM, Ray Madigan <raymond...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have two Rev B beaglebone blacks. One I never used since I bought it. I
> recently ordered a Rev C to use for my project but I thought I might as well
> try to make some use the one I have never used. I wanted to put Debian 7.5
> on the device so it would be similar to the one I will get in a couple of
> days.
>
> I first booted the device with the factory installed Angstrom distribution.
> It worked well.
> I then downloaded the image from http://beagleboard.org/latest-images
>
> I downloaded
>
> Older Debian images
> BeagleBone Black (eMMC flasher)
> Debian 7.5 (BeagleBone Black - 2GB eMMC) 2014-05-14 - more info - bittorrent
> - md5: 74615fb680af8f252c034d3807c9b4ae
>
>
>
> I put the image on a microSd card, held the boot button down until it
> started to echo info to the display
>
> It booted and the screen showed in red letters that it was a temporary
> installation and I needed to flash to the eMMC. I used the terminal program
> and it seemed to work. I didn't have time to flash it so I shut it down.

You shutdown mid flash... So it never completed the eMMC install, so
yeah, you have to reflash now...

Here is the latest "stable" 7.x-wheezy/3.8 kernel/2GB:
http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#BBB.2FBBG_.28All_Revs.29_eMMC_Flashers

btw, we nuked this method, now you users don't get a temp session to
play around anymore, everyone has to wait and watch the flashing
process ;)

> A couple of hours later I went back to try it again and it would not boot
> the original Angstrom, the blue led's all stay on and nothing happens. If I
> try to load the Debian image I get 3 lines on the display that I will post
> next.
>
> [25.132791] libphy: PHY 4a101000.mdio:01 not found
> [25.137954] net etho: phy 4a101000.mdio.01 not found on slave 1
> [28.305991] tilcdc 4830e000.fb: timeout waiting framedone
>
> Then it waits a period and seems go go to neverlnd. The display responds
> that it has lost its signal.
>
> Any help would be useful.
>
> Useful responses might be something like:
>
> Sorry dude, your device is now bricked.
> or
> Maybe you can get better response here
> or
> Advice on how to reset the device or something.

Regards,

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

[Ray Madigan]

This is great, I really appreciate your help.  

I wish I had known that it was flashing.  Some link sent me to this page:

http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#Flashing_eMMC

which told me I had to edit a file and reflash.  

To setup the standalone microSD image to automatically flash the eMMC on powerup.In /boot/uEnv.txt:

##enable BBB: eMMC Flasher:
cmdline=init=/opt/scripts/tools/eMMC/init-eMMC-flasher-v3.sh

 

If this is no longer valid is there something I can do to modify the page?

[Gerald Coley]

I would ask Jason Kridner to make the codification.

Gerald

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[Robert Nelson]

> This is great, I really appreciate your help.
>
> I wish I had known that it was flashing. Some link sent me to this page:
>
> http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#Flashing_eMMC
>
> which told me I had to edit a file and reflash.
>
>> To setup the standalone microSD image to automatically flash the eMMC on
>> powerup.In /boot/uEnv.txt:
>
> ##enable BBB: eMMC Flasher:
> cmdline=init=/opt/scripts/tools/eMMC/init-eMMC-flasher-v3.sh
>
>
> If this is no longer valid is there something I can do to modify the page?

That's "only" for images without the words "eMMC-flasher" in the file name..