After Flashing Images, Boot Failures After Sudo Apt Upgrade

General Discussion
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I recently received a BeagleBone AI-64. I am setup as standalone with display and keyboard/mouse. I went through the Quick Start Guide Update software and Update U-Boot sections at Quick Start Guide — BeagleBoard Documentation. After sudo reboot at the end of the Update U-Boot section, I got nothing on reboot, except a flashing cursor in the upper left of my display. I’m not sure what happened. Maybe I got some of the update commands out of sequence.

I’m just trying to get back to a stable Debian 11 image. I tried flashing a couple images (BBAI64 11.8 2023-10-07 10GB eMMC TI EDGEAI Xfce Flasher and BeagleBone AI-64 Rev B1). In both cases, I can successfully flash from SD card, power down, remove SD card, power up and boot up into the desktop. After this in both cases, after sudo apt update; sudo apt upgrade, I get a boot failure on sudo reboot. Maybe I am missing or misunderstanding some instructions.

Can anyone suggest an image for Debian 11 on BeagleBone AI-64 and instructions I may be missing to avoid the boot failure after sudo apt update; sudo apt upgrade; sudo reboot?

Thank you.

The uploaded picture is my display on boot failure of BBAI64 11.8 2023-10-07 10GB eMMC TI EDGEAI Xfce Flasher.

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i can double check later tonight or tomorrow, but it should apt-get cleanly…

Flasher: GitHub - beagleboard/bb-imager-rs: BeagleBoard.org rust based utility for flashing SDCard, MCUs and configuring software image options like username, password, netwroking etc.

Right now we are shipping Debian 13 for the AI64…

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Regards,

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Thank you. With BBAI64 Debian 13.2 2025-11-25 XFCE Flasher (v6.12.x-ti), I successfully rebooted after sudo apt update; sudo apt upgrade. So, I consider this issue resolved, for now.

I had a requirement from a client to build software on a BeagleBone AI-64 Debian 11 platform, but that requirement has gone away for now. Although, it could come back in the next month or so.

Therefore, I really need a recommendation for a Debian 11 flasher image that is also expected to successfully reboot, after sudo apt update; sudo apt upgrade.

Thanks again

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The last tagged version of Debian 11 would be this… ARM64 - Debian 11.x (Bullseye) - Monthly Snapshots - 2023-10-07

I’ll take a look at it, to see what’s breaking a working image.