I've had my BBB for about a month now, but just found time to tinker with it. When I power up the board, I get 3 of 4 blue status lights, which remain solid. I am unable to connect via the USB setup Wizard, and HDMI out shows nothing. My first thought was maybe the flash didn't take at the factory so I tried to install the latest version of angstrom from beagleboard.org. I have tried three different SD cards, but each attempt was unsuccessful. Also, when I hold the user boot button down and apply power, (per the update instructions on beagleboard.org) none of the status LEDs will light up.
The last option I could think of was FTDI via the j1 header. So I connected my FTDI friend, which shed a little more light on the issue, but I don't know where to go from here. ANY help would be much appreciated!
This is what I get via FTDI when powering in the BBB:
------------ WITH SD CARD INSERTED ----------
U-Boot 2013.04-rc1-14237-g90639fe-dirty (Apr 13 2013 - 13:57:11)
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: <ethaddr> not set. Validating first E-fuse MAC
cpsw, usb_ether
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 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
Failed to mount ext2 filesystem...
** Unrecognized filesystem type **
gpio: pin 55 (gpio 55) value is 1
** Invalid partition 2 **
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