BeagleBoardBeginners guide

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Hello,
another try.
I’m following the guide for beginners. I partitioned and formatted a 4GB sd card. Then I downloaded an angstrom image from narcissus. As described in the guide I copied the MLO, u-boot.bin and uImage files into the bootable partition and the rootfs in the other.

As stated in the guide, having a bb_xm I didn’t set any boot args.

But at power up only the power led is on. Nothing else happens.
I also tried to reset with the user button pressed but it doesn’t boot anyway.

There is something else I missed? Should not be enough to put the files into a properly formatted sd card?
I read a lot of guide about beagleboard but each one is different! And I’m quite confusing about the simplest way to boot an angstrom image.

Thanks

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Hi Marco,

Try out this link, this works perfectly fine. Did you copy the uEnv.txt??

http://code.google.com/p/beagleboard/wiki/SDCardValidationImageHowto

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The uEnv.txt file is not mentioned in the guide I linked! So I didn’t copy it.

Now I’m trying another time from scratch following the link you provided.
Anyway is takes very long time to get bb working fine :wink:

Bye