I managed to flash a recent purchased BBB to Debian 8.6 (BBB-blank-debian8.6-lxqt-4gb-2016-11-27).It works (partly) as I can see via Cloud 9 acces. But the gui is gone. I no longer have a graphical display (4D systems) nor keyboard/mouse access (via usb dongle). The display is fully lit. The board is completely accessable via Cloud9 and normal linux commands work via this interface. I did an update (sudo apt-get update) followed by reboot but no succes. Do I miss something? Please advise. Many thanks in advance,
Harke
Btw: the Debian version of 2015-11-03 works great! (I still have the SD card)
I am curious how you ended up on beaglebone. I had two I bought some time back. I flashed them both with the 8.6 and both have exactly what you describe. I can ssh via USB. No GUI. I put a monitor / keybard with nothing. What did you learn and what would you suggest? I really just want to play with the boards. I have a Rapberry pi cluster configured and wanted to have the beaglebone in the mix somehow… Anyways curious what you learned? did? etc.