I’m having difficulties logging in when I get to the beaglebone login: prompt through a serial connection, using minicom in echo mode with USB power. No matter what I enter, nothing happens.
I feel pretty dumb, because I tried debian debian:temppwd debian temppwd <return> and everythign in between to try to proceed with the boot. I’m on the latest release, emCC flashed.
What am I doing wrong?
bealgebone login: debian
password: temppwd
This is what I thought worked. Maybe people are trying something new?
Seth
P.S. If you are building your own kernel, make menuconfig and things in the build process, will make access available for you to make a target name, password, and other ideas. At least, it was that way w/ buildroot a while back.
Side note here: I did notice that something changed in newer kernels w/ building w/ buildroot. I could not set the password for the user on the target.
So… no text from your keyboard shows up in the serial terminal?
I don’t know minicom… but if your part of the ‘dialout’ group, your minicom settings are wack…
Use anything other then minicom… gtkterm, tio, screen, etc…
Regards,
Yes, it does not work. The pre-login message says “ubuntu:temppwd” but it does not work. The text next to the download button says “debian:temppwd” but is does not work.
If there is no text when you type, make sure hardware flow control is off
Thanks.
No, there is. I’ve tried all combinations of ubuntu/debian with temppwd/tmppwd/tempwd.
I’m using am335x-debian-11.7-iot-armhf-2023-09-02-4gb.img and I’ve verified the checksum.
Is there an alternative image to make this BBB work again? I don’t see any “rev” mark on the PCB.
I have it powered with a 1 A power supply, it’s connected to a TV using HDMI, and keyboard/mouse are connected through a USB dongle.
If the login prompt is suggesting the username is Ubuntu then you are probably booting from an image on the emmc rather than the sd card.
That might expalin not being able to login.
To make sure you are booting from the sd card, with the power off, insert the sd card and hold down the boot button by the sd card. Then apply power. You can let go of the button when you see it booting.
If that still doesnt work copy the boot log here.
Many thanks!, that was the case.
Last time I used it was around 10 years ago so I had forgotten about that.
Good to see you got solved.
Don’t forget to give Benedict a thumbs up by marking his post as the solution on your way out…
You can use dd to zero out the first meg of the emmc ( assuming it has no data you need), that way you will not need to hold the boot button down when powering up