help needed

Hi,

Help me please to make my Beagle Board fully operational again.
After reflashing a new x-load into NAND all the interfaces except USB
are non-responsive.
There is only a power on LED and the USB enumerates as OMAP3530.

It seems to be a serious design issue, that is possible so easy to
brick the board.
Is the recovery process documented or do I need to send the board back
for repair?

How can I reprogram it through JTAG and what JTAG hardware is
compatible with Beagle Board?

Thank you. Will appreciate any help.

Jan

Hi,

Did you try this…

http://tinyurl.com/cqqb8p

I too bricked my Beagleboard last week, and the steps documented here, worked like a charm !

Regards
-Nitin

Hi,

Help me please to make my Beagle Board fully operational again.
After reflashing a new x-load into NAND all the interfaces except USB
are non-responsive.
There is only a power on LED and the USB enumerates as OMAP3530.

It seems to be a serious design issue, that is possible so easy to
brick the board.
Is the recovery process documented or do I need to send the board back
for repair?

How can I reprogram it through JTAG and what JTAG hardware is
compatible with Beagle Board?

Thank you. Will appreciate any help.

Jan

Hi Jan,

Have you checked this?
http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardRecovery

Alternatively you can recover you board by use of USB peripheral booting -
See more at:
http://nishanthmenon.blogspot.com/2009/01/omap-peripheral-boot-what-heck-is-
it.html

It's not an error/design issue, and I feel 100% confident you can recover
your board :slight_smile:
In case you still run into problems, please don't hesitate to ask...

Best regards - Good luck
  Søren

Hi, I had a similar problem in january, and got unvaluable aid from this mailing list. Please look into thread “HELP with USB recovery, minicom and kermit UART upload options”. You can digg it on http://groups.google.com/group/beagleboard/topics?gvc=2 using search function.
The simplest option which finally did it is using SD card, with adequate formatting, as described on page http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardRecovery. I had tried it without success before emailing for help, and in fact it seems it had to do with unproper syncing of the SD card before removing it from the host computer. Be very carefull when removing device (use “safely remove device” on windows or ubuntu graphic interface, or do proper sync and umount on linux command line after preparing the card). Someone even provided on that thread a script to automate the whole format and setuptask, it worked almost out of the box for me , with only minor adjustements (play it step by step by hand the first time, it seems there are minor differences between fdisk versions). I can send you the adapted script if you like, successfully used on Kubuntu 8.10).
USB recovery also works (more complicated), using zmodem (ctrl A-S on minicom or command line with lrzsz package) to transfer files to Beagle over usb as described in the procedure.
You might need a couple tries to get it right, but final victory is certain !!

May the Force be with you.

Laurent