BeagleBone Black SD CARD fails to load

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Good morning,

I’m trying to update to start beagleBone black from SD card, concerning this I’ve installed on the SD CARD

Debian 9.1 2017-08-31 4GB SD LXQT image from http://beagleboard.org/latest-images

I’ve formatted the SD-CARD with HPUSBDisk-2.2.3.exe

and written the image with Win32DiskImager

I’ve followed the procedure:

  1. remove power and/or usb connection

  2. insert the SD CARD

  3. Hold S2 button and insert power plug

the result is that the four led never flash as described, on the debug connector I can see a long long long sequence of “C” characters.

It seems to me that the sd-card reader is broken, how can I check this?

I’ve no problem when starting from eMMC but I want to change the image on the eMMC and it seems not possible.

Thanks

Antonio

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Retry with etcher.io, we don't recommend Win32DiskImage anymore...

https://etcher.io/

Regards,

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the problem was due to a 128GByte micro SD giving me problems also with etcher,

using a samsung 32GByte micro SD and Etcher now I can program correctly the sd card and is recognized during standard boot

Thanks,

Now I'll try finally to start the lcd 4.3 cape from waveshare.

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the problem was due to a 128GByte micro SD giving me problems also with
etcher,

128GByte micro SD = SDXC, the Beagle's only support SD/SDHC (up to
32GB), "some" 64GB (SDXC) SanDisk microSD cards will work as they seem
to support the SDHC interface in a backwards compatibility...

using a samsung 32GByte micro SD and Etcher now I can program correctly the
sd card and is recognized during standard boot

Thanks,

Now I'll try finally to start the lcd 4.3 cape from waveshare.

Regards,

5

I don't know why but it seems that I can see just half of the screen using the LCD cape and

Debian-sdcard-beaglebone-2015.02.27-LCD-cape-LCD4.3-v2.0

there is a procedure to follow to have this cape correctly working?

Thanks again

Antonio