I downloaded the flasher image from
http://downloads.angstrom-distribution.org/demo/beaglebone/archive/
The one dated 23 October 2013 and I have been successfully flashing the eMMC on my Beaglebone based hardware.
It would run the flasher and then go to powerdown.
Now it does not flash for some reason. Instead it boots to Angstrom.
The messages I get from the bootloader are
U-Boot SPL 2013.04-dirty (Jun 19 2013 - 09:57:14)
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
reading u-boot.img
reading u-boot.img
U-Boot 2013.04-dirty (Jun 19 2013 - 09:57:14)
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: not set. Validating first E-fuse MAC
cpsw, usb_ether
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 1 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
reading uEnv.txt
14 bytes read in 4 ms (2.9 KiB/s)
Loaded environment from uEnv.txt
Importing environment from mmc …
gpio: pin 55 (gpio 55) value is 1
4270840 bytes read in 784 ms (5.2 MiB/s)
gpio: pin 56 (gpio 56) value is 1
24125 bytes read in 75 ms (313.5 KiB/s)
Booting from mmc …
Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 80007fc0 …
Image Name: Angstrom/3.8.13/beaglebone
Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
Data Size: 4270776 Bytes = 4.1 MiB
Load Address: 80008000
Entry Point: 80008000
Verifying Checksum … OK
Flattened Device Tree blob at 80f80000
Booting using the fdt blob at 0x80f80000
XIP Kernel Image … OK
OK
Using Device Tree in place at 80f80000, end 80f88e3c
Starting kernel …
Uncompressing Linux… done, booting the kernel.
[ 0.194284] omap2_mbox_probe: platform not supported
[ 0.204887] tps65217-bl tps65217-bl: no platform data provided
[ 0.281428] bone-capemgr bone_capemgr.9: slot #0: No cape found
[ 0.318535] bone-capemgr bone_capemgr.9: slot #1: No cape found
[ 0.355643] bone-capemgr bone_capemgr.9: slot #2: No cape found
[ 0.385897] bone-capemgr bone_capemgr.9: bone: Invalid signature ‘ffffffff’ at slot 3
[ 0.394117] bone-capemgr bone_capemgr.9: slot #3: No cape found
[ 0.415514] bone-capemgr bone_capemgr.9: slot #6: BB-BONELT-HDMIN conflict P8.45 (#5:BB-BONELT-HDMI)
[ 0.425153] bone-capemgr bone_capemgr.9: slot #6: Failed verification
[ 0.431927] bone-capemgr bone_capemgr.9: loader: failed to load slot-6 BB-BONELT-HDMIN:00A0 (prio 2)
[ 0.452709] omap_hsmmc mmc.4: of_parse_phandle_with_args of ‘reset’ failed
[ 0.516316] pinctrl-single 44e10800.pinmux: pin 44e10854 already requested by 44e10800.pinmux; cannot claim for gpio-leds.8
[ 0.528027] pinctrl-single 44e10800.pinmux: pin-21 (gpio-leds.8) status -22
[ 0.535341] pinctrl-single 44e10800.pinmux: could not request pin 21 on device pinctrl-single
[ 0.568871] dummy 0-0034: Error -121 writing to cec:0xff
[ 0.574626] tda998x 0-0070: Error -121 reading from 0xa
[ 0.580339] tda998x 0-0070: Error -121 writing to 0xa
[ 0.636978] tda998x 0-0070: Error -121 reading from 0xa
[ 0.642553] tda998x 0-0070: Error -121 writing to 0xa
[ 0.699475] tda998x 0-0070: Error -121 reading from 0x1
[ 0.705078] tda998x 0-0070: Error -121 writing to 0x1
[ 0.710504] tda998x 0-0070: Error -121 reading from 0x1
[ 0.716074] tda998x 0-0070: Error -121 writing to 0x1
[ 0.721462] tda998x 0-0070: Error -121 writing to REG_CURPAGE
[ 0.727603] tda998x 0-0070: Error -121 writing to 0x200
[ 0.733209] tda998x 0-0070: Error -121 writing to 0x201
[ 0.738780] tda998x 0-0070: Error -121 writing to 0x202
[ 0.744364] tda998x 0-0070: Error -121 writing to 0x203
[ 0.749961] tda998x 0-0070: Error -121 writing to 0x204
[ 0.755565] tda998x 0-0070: Error -121 writing to 0x205
[ 0.761136] tda998x 0-0070: Error -121 writing to 0x20e
[ 0.766704] tda998x 0-0070: Error -121 writing to 0x211
[ 0.772301] tda998x 0-0070: Error -121 writing to 0x207
[ 0.777905] tda998x 0-0070: Error -121 writing to 0x208
[ 0.783475] tda998x 0-0070: Error -121 writing to 0x209
[ 0.789042] tda998x 0-0070: Error -121 writing to 0x20a
[ 0.794640] tda998x 0-0070: Error -121 writing to 0x206
[ 0.800244] tda998x 0-0070: Error -121 writing to REG_CURPAGE
[ 0.806357] tda998x 0-0070: Error -121 reading from 0x0
[ 0.811926] tda998x 0-0070: Error -121 reading from 0x2
[ 0.817824] tilcdc 4830e000.fb: no encoders/connectors found
[ 0.823780] tilcdc 4830e000.fb: failed to initialize mode setting
systemd-fsck[86]: eMMC-Flasher: clean, 12844/218592 files, 149811/873534 blocks
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The Angstrom Distribution beaglebone ttyO0
Angstrom v2012.12 - Kernel 3.8.13
beaglebone login: [ 11.653594] libphy: PHY 4a101000.mdio:01 not found
[ 11.658638] net eth0: phy 4a101000.mdio:01 not found on slave 1
Any clues as to why I am jumping to Angstrom and not flashing the eMMc.