I'm having an issue where I'm not receiving any output from the Beagleboard XM. When I power it up I only see the D14 and D5 LEDs light up. I don't see anything else regardless as to whether I have a micro-sd or network cable plugged in.
I've tested the serial cable and that seems to work fine (I have an M68HC11 board that I was able to connect to). I've downloaded the validation image, nothing out via Serial or DVI-D. Grabbed the Ubuntu Natty image, nada. I'm at a loss as to what to do now. Have I missed some obvious thing? It's a revision A2 that I ordered back in August.
A little history about my experience with it so far.
I've had the my beagleboard for quite awhile now and have been running the Ubuntu Maverick image on it. I played around with it and got some simple test apps to compile on it and set up an ssh server. After that I plugged it in, and promptly forgot about it. On a whim I ssh'd into it and ran an apt-get dist-upgrade. That was a few weeks ago, it seemed to work fine so I closed the connection. I tried to access it today to look at setting up a murmur server and lo and behold it wasn't working.
You might try recreating your SD card in the event it has been corrupted. Try one of the three images found at http://circuitco.com/support/index.php?title=Circuitco_Support_Wiki. I woudld start with the older revsions. I am not sure if the latest version works with a REV A2. In theory it should, but I don’t know how much testing was done using the Rev A2.
Thanks, but I’m still not seeing any output on the serial link using the images (XMC_3_30 and XMC_4_25) provided. I should see some sort of message appear even if there isn’t an sd card inserted, correct? I’m not seeing anything coming across the serial link at all.
Are you using a null modem or twsit cable between the board and the PC?
Are you pressing the user button?
Does anything get printed to the serial port if the SD card is removed?
It’s a USB to Serial adapter. It’s wired like a NULL modem cable. I know it’s fine as it was working a few months ago with this board, and I tested it against another board last night.
I’ve tried pressing the user button, and power cycling it will watching the serial output.
I do not receive anything off the serial port at any time. I’m set up for 115200 8N1 with no Flow Control.
The BeagelBoard-xM requires a straight cable. A Null modem cable will not work.
The User Button pressing is the way the BeagleBoard works. If you press it on the -xM it will not boot at all and you will not get anything out of the serial port.
I will double check the cable I’m using. I must be mistaken about it being a NULL modem cable as I know it worked before with this board.
So if I have a straight serial cable connected to the board, and the I power cycle it I should get some type of output correct? I believe it gave me a couple of lines of output before even without a microsd card inserted.
I apologize, I was mistaken it’s not in a NULL modem configuration. I’m connecting via a USB to Serial connector (PL2303 Serial Port). I’m not sure why I had convinced myself it wasn’t a standard configuration.
If you get a few characters, possibly garbage, that means the board is booting, but not finding a boot source. That points to an issue with the SD card or possibly a damaged connector.