I did an SD card install of ubuntu 14-04 console following the script instructions on eLinix - I ended up with a Debian console.
I do not have an ubuntu as a user or temppwd. I do have a Debian console with user set to debian. Looks great. Not what I want or expected. I can login as debian, temppwd.
Hold the boot button down, it default to eMMC.
Regards,
Did you hold down the Boot button, near the USB connector ?
If not it will boot from eMMC which has Debian 
“No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing” Edmond Burke (1729 - 1797)
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GRRR. I have been booting from the sd cards for months, and didn’t have to hold down the boot button. I just tested this and my older sd images on either BBB boot from the SD card without holding the boot button down. Indded with the SD card out they boot to debian.
So what magick makes the BBB automatically boot from the SDcard first if present without holding the boot botton?
If you're using newer uSD images, you need to flash the eMMC with the
latest boot loader. That will get you back to booting off the uSD card
by default (if present), *AND* you'll be able to "apt-get install" new
kernels!
There's a file in the root dircectory:
/bbb-uEnv.txt
rename to:
/uEnv.txt
aka
sudo mv /bbb-uEnv.txt /uEnv.txt
It'll work with "old" bootloader in eMMC.
Regards,
Thanks Robert.
Sometimes I feel like finding the right answer for the BBB is like searching for used chewing gum in a chicken coop. I’ve now been able to do several of the Forest project exercises (0-3,5) the PWM fails because it refers to ocp.2, and I have ocp.3. So I am now a happy camper. Are you going to write a BBB for Dummies book?
That’s actually a good idea Alan !
Unfortunately, by the time it was published, it would be out of date L
You appear to be having the same problems as I did and still do to some extent.
I wish there was a web search engine that allowed you to exclude pages older than a certain date.
It seems that every time I find the answer to a problem, it turns out to be three years old !
I also haven’t had a lot of luck posting here either ……
Thanks Robert.
Sometimes I feel like finding the right answer for the BBB is like searching for used chewing gum in a chicken coop. I’ve now been able to do several of the Forest project exercises (0-3,5) the PWM fails because it refers to ocp.2, and I have ocp.3. So I am now a happy camper. Are you going to write a BBB for Dummies book?
I can now boot off the SD card - needed to unmount the sdcard, modify the /BOOT (/dev/sdX1) and sync(important) before putting back into the BBB. This took me a little longer then expected, because I had a flaky carrier, that kept flicking the write protect on every time I mounted the SD in my laptop.