I have some problems with booting Angstrom on my BB. The purpose of
my senior project is to have a webcam connected to BB that will
capture an image of an object and then by using some C or C++ program
and the image(captured by the webcam) to analyze the image data. Based
on what I found on internet, OpenCV seems to work with Angstrom on
BB.
My beagleboard is rev C4
1. I went to "http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardBeginners" and follow the
steps formatting (create a FAT 32 and a EXT3 partition) my SD card (4
GB),
2. Then I put MLO, u-boot.bin and uImage to the FAT32 partition, and
then I untar the Angstrom image and the module files to the EXT3
partition.
(I download MLO, u-boot.bin and uImage from "http://
www.angstrom-distribution.org/demo/beagleboard/" for the module I
downloaded the "modules-2.6.32-
r98+gitr5fc29e7b2a76a64a739f857858ef0b98294aa155-beagleboard.tgz" one
(I just picked this one at random), for the Angstrom image, since I
need OpenCV and a C (or C++) compiler, I created the image at "http://
narcissus.angstrom-distribution.org/" , I chose "X11" and "GNOME")
3. Once everything is done, I inserted my SD card to BB, but while I
hold "USR" button (and press "RESET" button once and release it, I
hold the USR button for about 10 sec), the two LEDs in parallel didn't
lit up at all and nothing happened to the screen too (it just turned
black). It seems like the BB didnt even boot the files.
Does anyone see any mistake that I made in the steps above? Is there
any possible solution that I can approach? (perhaps any suggestion
for the operating system other than Angstrom? (ubuntu??))
WHAT I NEED:
A Linux system that will run on Beagleboard, in which
the system is compatible with OpenCV (so I can use a webcam) and has a
C or C++ compiler so that I can write a program that will analyze the
image from the webcam. (The program is written already in MATLAB)
I tried the above steps at least ten times already, I know that I need
to go to /boot folder and copy the uImage file, rename it and copy to
FAT32 drive, but it didn't work too. I also used a 8GB SD card to try
it and it still didn't work. I don't know Linux that well, I use
Fedora from the computer in my lab.
I appreciate for your time reading this LONG message, and I really
hope that someone can help me with this.....
John