BeagleY-AI: unable to boot

Here are the exact serial, and model with info of the SD card I used

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Thru the serial port, select:

microSD (debug)

This enables earlycon=ns16550a,mmio32,0x02800000 and removes quiet from the append line…

Regards,

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FWIW, I was using a Patriot 32 GB class 10 u1 card, which wasn’t working out. I am currently writing the latest image from bb-imager (dated 06-26) to a Sandisk 32 GB card and will edit the post with my results. Edit: and I am now also booted - currently logged into ssh via the local usb-c connection. The Sandisk 32 GB card did the trick. I wish I had known about the microsd card sensitivity but hopefully this thread will help others - thanks to everyone for the help.

Hi,
thinking this issue is something that needs to be resolved…
I am basically there, with:

  • the image recomanded from the quick start guide
  • the recommanded SD card from the users above from Amazon flashed via balena
  • changed username and pw and removed the #
    +tried ssh via putty.

but so far no sucess.

Trying now different images…

hooked up a uart connection and i am recieving the following message:

i used the latest image from: Latest Software Images - BeagleBoard

and i have no idea how to resolve it. please advice

So all of us are on the same page. Log the entire boot, using gtk term setup a log file first then power up the board.

Also, try using to official beagle imager and set the user with that.

I am using the same image so I know for fact it works on our boards.

fred@bby2:~$ uname -a
Linux bby2 6.1.83-ti-arm64-r63 #1bookworm SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Jul 10 23:00:56 UTC 2024 aarch64 GNU/Linux

Unfortunately BB imager didnt work for me. neither on my old windows pc or my new one with windows 11, so i sticked with balena, it never started the installation process after clicking .exe.
Other option i can try is with raspberry pi imager that was also mentioned anywhere in this thread, havent tried that yet.

Update: the below output from putty is from the Raspberry Pi imager.
Update#2: Also tried to switch the SD card to another Beagley-AI board, basically recieve the same output from the serial monitor.

Beagley-AI.txt (8,4 KB)

mmc: -110 This means when jumping from u-boot to the kernel, Linux was not able to reinitialize the microSD…

Managed to get it work.

How to:
i used a Raspberry Pi 5, & installed the BB imager onto it, to flash some SD cards.
Then i used a different SD-Card as the recommanded one in this thread:
Amazon

Further i was wondering why there was no screen. The uart connection worked well.
I figured out that the raspberry pi is working with them without a problem, but the beagley-ai ist not. I tested a total of 3 displays of which 2 old displays with HDMI, a BenQ monitor and Alienware did not respond, only the most recent one i purchased was a quiet cheap one from Prechen that worked and instantly showed a screen.

Now the beagley-ai is working as wished in the standalone config.

Does BeagleY-AI support 64gb microsd cards?

yes

My BeagleY-AI is booting twice without giving me a window to ssh using the initial credentials that I wrote to sysconf.txt. The sysconf.txt file ends up getting restored to its original state. I am unable to login for the first time. Please help

What image are you using? Need a link so we can be on the same page.

I was using a windows host. Accessing the serial port over Putty instead of using ssh over powershell helped me fix the issue.

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