Problem when flashing SDcard on windows 10

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Hello dears. I am facing a problem when trying to flash my micro SD card whith the “PocketBeagle 2 Debian 12.9 2025-03-05 Minimal (v6.12.x-ti)” by using BB flasher V0.0.4 Gui and Windows 10.

At the end of writting process, the application returns “Flashing Failed Sd Card Error: Failed to customize flashed image Failed to read mbr: generic I/O error”

I read some material suggesting to attemp it by using Linux, but that is no possible. I only use Windows on my setup.
Is there any alternative to get that flasher process finished with success return?

Best regards.

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Hi. It seems to be an error during customization. I will check it out.
Can you open an issue in the repo as well so that it does not get lost.

The testing on windows side has been relatively less, since I do not have any Windows machines (I have only tested on VMs, and that too not particularly regularly).

Is there any alternative to get that flasher process finished with success return?

Well, technically, writing the OS Image did succeed. I am assuming you are trying to set some options from the Customization menu (maybe username and password) which is failing right now for some reason. You can try flashing without any customization to check if it succeeds.

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Hello @Maique_Correa_Garcia
Same problem here: I have Win10 machine and never got the BB-Imager working, always ended with card error in any combination of customization or not.
Have you tried Etcher? https://etcher.balena.io/
Check the start guide on the BeagleY-AI: BeagleY-AI Quick Start — BeagleBoard Documentation
Should be the same process for customization…

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@ayush1325 rewrote bb-imager in rust… He has a full installer for Windows setup…

Regards,

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Hello @RobertCNelson
That imager doesn’t work on Win10 machine. Always failing at the end with a card error. Brand new cards fail.

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Hello Guys. Thank you for all the help. I gonna try to open a ticket at the repo.
Today I tried to put that sd card on the pocketbeagle 2 and it seems to boot but (I don’t know if it is related or not) the pocket does not create the network adapter on my Win 10.

Looking for some hardware differences in my computer I realizes that there it was creating a COM port after some time. I also get an SSH access throught it. In my computer explorer, it also appears the BeagleBoard.org with “Boot Partition” partition.

There must be a problem with the customization as @ayush1325 wrote. The configured user and password set on BB-imager didn’t work at this attempt. I logged it bu using default credentials.

I am newby in the Pocketbeagle 2 so I am going to continue attempting to get the SSH access throught the expected network adapter.

Best Regards.

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I am not sure about network problem.

The windows error should be fixed with bb-flasher-sd: Fix windows flashing by Ayush1325 · Pull Request #15 · beagleboard/bb-imager-rs · GitHub
Feel free to open issues regarding any other issues you find.

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