Flash oops! bb green wireless

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Very interesting for the last 3 responses.

I am re-downloading the image Robert pointed to. I did try a 2016 image a week or two ago. It looks like it is maybe copying that image from the eMMC back to the card as Dennis has mentioned.
I will look at the u-boot reference again and see if I can figure that out.

Maybe we are getting somewhere!
Thanks all.

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Oh my.
It copied the image on the board over the SD card again.

Holding the button didn’t prevent this.

Ah!!! :slight_smile:

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I just did:
mmc dev 1
mmc erase 0 0x400

Now reloading SD card that go overwritten. Fingers crossed. :slight_smile:

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Cowabunga!

I have shell on the board. Thanks all for the advice. It really took a community on this one.

Problem:

  • I had put a flasher image onto the card at some point (Newb).
  • Every time I put a SD in it wrote the flasher image to the SD

Fix:

  • blow away the partition on the eMCC - I don’t feel qualified to put the command for this here as you could do a lot of badness if you get this wrong.
  • went to a Windows computer and flashed the latest - several attempts with my Mac looked like they worked but the image wasn’t working. The fact that you couldn’t see the card from the Mac after putting the image on the SD was a sign.
  • took the # off the flasher line in the uEnv.txt file.
  • put the card in. held the user button and powered it up.
  • proper sd to eMCC flashing occurred.
  • shell achieved.

Thanks again for all the help. Michael B