os x trouble making SD image

I’m trying to make an SD card with the latest Jessie img. I downloaded “bone-debian-8.7-iot-armhf-2017-03-19-4gb.img.xz” to my mac and checked the shasum. I decompressed it and used “dd if=bone-debian-8.7-iot-armhf-2017-03-19-4gb.img of=/dev/diskX bs=1m” to write to it.
Here’s the BBB boot console output:

U-Boot SPL 2013.04-dirty (Jul 10 2013 - 14:02:53)

musb-hdrc: ConfigData=0xde (UTMI-8, dyn FIFOs, HB-ISO Rx, HB-ISO Tx, SoftConn)

musb-hdrc: MHDRC RTL version 2.0

musb-hdrc: setup fifo_mode 4

musb-hdrc: 28/31 max ep, 16384/16384 memory

USB Peripheral mode controller at 47401000 using PIO, IRQ 0

musb-hdrc: ConfigData=0xde (UTMI-8, dyn FIFOs, HB-ISO Rx, HB-ISO Tx, SoftConn)

musb-hdrc: MHDRC RTL version 2.0

musb-hdrc: setup fifo_mode 4

musb-hdrc: 28/31 max ep, 16384/16384 memory

USB Host mode controller at 47401800 using PIO, IRQ 0

OMAP SD/MMC: 0

mmc_send_cmd : timeout: No status update

reading u-boot.img

reading u-boot.img

U-Boot 2013.04-dirty (Jul 10 2013 - 14:02:53)

I2C: ready

DRAM: 512 MiB

WARNING: Caches not enabled

NAND: No NAND device found!!!

0 MiB

MMC: OMAP SD/MMC: 0, OMAP SD/MMC: 1

*** Warning - readenv() failed, using default environment

musb-hdrc: ConfigData=0xde (UTMI-8, dyn FIFOs, HB-ISO Rx, HB-ISO Tx, SoftConn)

musb-hdrc: MHDRC RTL version 2.0

musb-hdrc: setup fifo_mode 4

musb-hdrc: 28/31 max ep, 16384/16384 memory

USB Peripheral mode controller at 47401000 using PIO, IRQ 0

musb-hdrc: ConfigData=0xde (UTMI-8, dyn FIFOs, HB-ISO Rx, HB-ISO Tx, SoftConn)

musb-hdrc: MHDRC RTL version 2.0

musb-hdrc: setup fifo_mode 4

musb-hdrc: 28/31 max ep, 16384/16384 memory

USB Host mode controller at 47401800 using PIO, IRQ 0

Net: not set. Validating first E-fuse MAC

cpsw, usb_ether

Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0

gpio: pin 53 (gpio 53) value is 1

mmc0 is current device

micro SD card found

mmc0 is current device

gpio: pin 54 (gpio 54) value is 1

SD/MMC found on device 0

** File not found uEnv.txt **

gpio: pin 55 (gpio 55) value is 1

** Invalid partition 2 **

What’s going on? I’ve written the SD several times with both the “IOT” and “LXQT” versions of jessie.

Thanks.

I just tried the SD card in a different BBB. It works fine. THere’s something amiss with the old BBB. Is there an update to u-boot I need to install?

Hold down the boot button before you plug power… you just have an old u-boot in emmc.

Grab one of the flasher images and update it.

I do not use OSX myself, but have reports from a coworker that dd on OSX is somehow incompatible with these images. e.g. images made with dd in OSX fail, but work perfectly fine when created with Linux dd.

Thanks for your replies. I tried the “boot button down” in the image and it boots up fine. Thanks. I am now trying to flash the emac with an updated image. I downloaded “BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.5-2014-05-14-2gb.img.xz”, checked the shasum and dd’d as before. I inserted to the SD and held the “boot” button as I powered up the BBB. Booting progresses to a login prompt for debian, then it hangs. Here’s the console log output where it hangs:

INFO: task mmcqd/0:74 blocked for more than 60 seconds.

[ 120.533398] “echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs” disables this message.

[ 120.541728] Kernel panic - not syncing: hung_task: blocked tasks

[ 120.548109] [] (unwind_backtrace+0x1/0x9c) from [] (panic+0x59/0x158)

[ 120.556771] [] (panic+0x59/0x158) from [] (watchdog+0x19d/0x1c0)

[ 120.564962] [] (watchdog+0x19d/0x1c0) from [] (kthread+0x6b/0x78)

[ 120.573248] [] (kthread+0x6b/0x78) from [] (ret_from_fork+0x11/0x34)

[ 120.581797] drm_kms_helper: panic occurred, switching back to text console

I’ve remade the image and tried several attempts.
Thanks for any help.

Those are normal on "7.5-2014-05-14" that was over 3 years ago..

vs images from last sunday:

http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#Debian_Image_Testing_Snapshots

Regards,

Robert, Thanks. I followed the link provided. There are a lot of images. I think this is the one I want:

Jessie Snapshot iot#### Flasher: (iot) (All BeagleBone Variants)

Get prebuilt image:

wget [https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-05-14/iot/BBB-blank-debian-8.8-iot-armhf-2017-05-14-4gb.img.xz](https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/2017-05-14/iot/BBB-blank-debian-8.8-iot-armhf-2017-05-14-4gb.img.xz)
Is this correct? BTW. Is there a way to edit a post after it's posted?

That one will work..

Nope, google groups is both a "forum" and an "email" list.. Don't
worry about your older post.

Regards,

Everything’s good now. Thanks for the help. I was able to flash the latest image, it took a couple tries, but it’s in. I can now boot from the SD card.

What is the default sudo password? I want to install some software.

Thanks again,

Never mind about the password, I didn’t read what it was asking for carefully.