Emergency Mode on boot

Has anyone ever had the BBB boot into “Emergency mode”

I’m running the 6-20 release of the Angstrom eMMC flasher.

I booted up with a serial connection using an FTDI cable and I received this message:

“Welcome to emergency mode! After logging in, type “journalctl -xb” to view
system logs, “systemctl reboot” to reboot, “systemctl default” to try again
to boot into default mode.”

I tried booting into default mode with no luck. Entering ‘journalctl -xb’ gives this:

root@beaglebone:/mnt/stick# journalctl -xb
– Logs begin at Sat 2000-01-01 00:04:14 UTC, end at Sat 2000-01-01 17:30:01 UTC
Jan 01 00:04:14 beaglebone systemd-journal[87]: Allowing runtime journal files t
Jan 01 00:04:14 beaglebone kernel: Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
Jan 01 00:04:14 beaglebone kernel: Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
Jan 01 00:04:14 beaglebone kernel: Linux version 3.8.13 (koen@rrMBP) (gcc versio
Jan 01 00:04:14 beaglebone kernel: CPU: ARMv7 Processor [413fc082] revision 2 (A
Jan 01 00:04:14 beaglebone kernel: CPU: PIPT / VIPT nonaliasing data cache, VIPT
Jan 01 00:04:14 beaglebone kernel: Machine: Generic AM33XX (Flattened Device Tre
Jan 01 00:04:14 beaglebone kernel: Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache write
Jan 01 00:04:14 beaglebone kernel: On node 0 totalpages: 130816
Jan 01 00:04:14 beaglebone kernel: free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat c069b200,
Jan 01 00:04:14 beaglebone kernel: Normal zone: 1024 pages used for memmap
Jan 01 00:04:14 beaglebone kernel: Normal zone: 0 pages reserved
Jan 01 00:04:14 beaglebone kernel: Normal zone: 129792 pages, LIFO batch:31
Jan 01 00:04:14 beaglebone kernel: AM335X ES1.0 (neon )
Jan 01 00:04:14 beaglebone kernel: PERCPU: Embedded 8 pages/cpu @c0b05000 s9408
Jan 01 00:04:14 beaglebone kernel: pcpu-alloc: s9408 r8192 d15168 u32768 alloc=8
Jan 01 00:04:14 beaglebone kernel: pcpu-alloc: [0] 0
Jan 01 00:04:14 beaglebone kernel: Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility gro
Jan 01 00:04:14 beaglebone kernel: Kernel command line: console=ttyO0,115200n8 q
Jan 01 00:04:14 beaglebone kernel: PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192
Jan 01 00:04:14 beaglebone kernel: Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order
Jan 01 00:04:14 beaglebone kernel: Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order:
:

Anybody have any clue?

Tommy

Has anyone ever had the BBB boot into "Emergency mode"

I'm running the 6-20 release of the Angstrom eMMC flasher.

I booted up with a serial connection using an FTDI cable and I received
this message:

"Welcome to emergency mode! After logging in, type "journalctl -xb" to view
system logs, "systemctl reboot" to reboot, "systemctl default" to try again
to boot into default mode."

I tried booting into default mode with no luck. Entering 'journalctl -xb'
gives this:

root@beaglebone:/mnt/stick# journalctl -xb
-- Logs begin at Sat 2000-01-01 00:04:14 UTC, end at Sat 2000-01-01
17:30:01 UTC
Jan 01 00:04:14 beaglebone systemd-journal[87]: Allowing runtime journal
files t
Jan 01 00:04:14 beaglebone kernel: Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
Jan 01 00:04:14 beaglebone kernel: Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
Jan 01 00:04:14 beaglebone kernel: Linux version 3.8.13 (koen@rrMBP) (gcc
versio
Jan 01 00:04:14 beaglebone kernel: CPU: ARMv7 Processor [413fc082]
revision 2 (A
Jan 01 00:04:14 beaglebone kernel: CPU: PIPT / VIPT nonaliasing data
cache, VIPT
Jan 01 00:04:14 beaglebone kernel: Machine: Generic AM33XX (Flattened
Device Tre
Jan 01 00:04:14 beaglebone kernel: Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache
write
Jan 01 00:04:14 beaglebone kernel: On node 0 totalpages: 130816
Jan 01 00:04:14 beaglebone kernel: free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat
c069b200,
Jan 01 00:04:14 beaglebone kernel: Normal zone: 1024 pages used for
memmap
Jan 01 00:04:14 beaglebone kernel: Normal zone: 0 pages reserved
Jan 01 00:04:14 beaglebone kernel: Normal zone: 129792 pages, LIFO
batch:31
Jan 01 00:04:14 beaglebone kernel: AM335X ES1.0 (neon )
Jan 01 00:04:14 beaglebone kernel: PERCPU: Embedded 8 pages/cpu @c0b05000
s9408
Jan 01 00:04:14 beaglebone kernel: pcpu-alloc: s9408 r8192 d15168 u32768
alloc=8
Jan 01 00:04:14 beaglebone kernel: pcpu-alloc: [0] 0
Jan 01 00:04:14 beaglebone kernel: Built 1 zonelists in Zone order,
mobility gro
Jan 01 00:04:14 beaglebone kernel: Kernel command line:
console=ttyO0,115200n8 q
Jan 01 00:04:14 beaglebone kernel: PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1,
8192
Jan 01 00:04:14 beaglebone kernel: Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536
(order
Jan 01 00:04:14 beaglebone kernel: Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768
(order:
:

Did you cut off the log?

Nope, that’s where it stopped printing.
I moved to another board for a few minutes and then came back to that one and it worked just fine though.

Tommy