[beagleboard] Beagleboard only boots to command line (no Angstrom GUI)

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I suggest you follow what we tell you to do.

Http://CircuitCo.com/support

Gerald

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There are instructions on the wiki on how to make the card using a PC. Have you tried that?

Gerald

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Go here:

http://circuitco.com/support/index.php?title=Updating_The_Software

You will find a link to instructions on how to do it form a Linux PC.

Gerald

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I followed the instructions up to ‘How To Update’ (where it seems to suggest that creating the boot disk is complete), but the beagleboard doesn’t boot up at all using those instructions.

Do you have any suggestions as to why earlier methods were allowing me to boot, but not into the GUI and only from the command line?

nathan lachenmyer

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The instruction work fine. I use them 6-8 times per day. Ans I wrote them myself.

It boots up to the command line because that is the flasher program in the midst of flashing the eMMC on the board. After that is complete, you remove it and reboot. Then you get your desktop.

Gerald

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So I downloaded the 2013.05.08 flasher and put it on my SD card using the following command:

sudo dd if=test-only-not-for-production-BBB-eMMC-flasher-2013.05.08.img of=/dev/sdb bs=1M

just as the tutorial suggested. I assume this completes the sd card, and the remaining commands are meant to be run on the beagleboard once it loads. However, with the SD card formatted from the above command, the beagleboard won’t boot at all. I tried using minicom, and no messages appear either – the board just seems to do nothing.

Am I missing a step? Am I following the instructions incorrectly?

thanks,

nathan lachenmyer

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Yes. That is a Flasher program. It flashes the program into the eMMC. It has no desktop. It runs for 45 copying the code to the eMMC. Then you boot from there.

Here is what you are missing:

http://circuitco.com/support/index.php?title=Updating_The_Software

Gerald