Unable to Install Debian 11.7 on My Beaglebone Black

General Discussion
1

I’m trying to install the latest Debian 11.7 image for the Beaglebone Black, but I haven’t been successful.

Process:
After using Balena to write the image to an SD card, I inserted it into the board and powered it up. However, the board never completes the boot process.

Using an FTDI cable, I observed the following error messages in the terminal:

.......
Begin: Running /scripts/local-block ... done.
done.
Begin: Running /scripts/local-block ... done.
BBegin: Running /scripts/local-block ... done.
Begin: Running /scripts/local-block ... Begin: Running /scripts/local-block ... Begin: Running /scripts/local-block ... done.
Begin: Running /scripts/local-block ... done.
done.
Gave up waiting for root file system device.  Common problt-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

The full boot log is attached.
beaglebone-black-boot.txt (9.4 KB)

I would appreciate any help.

Best regards,

2

Hold the “USR” button down on startup, it’s reading the old verison of u-boot from the eMMC…

U-Boot SPL 2018.09-00002-g0b54a51eee (Sep 10 2018 - 19:41:39 -Trying to boot from MMC2
Loading Environment from EXT4... ** File not found /boot/uboot.env **

** Unable to read "/boot

U-Boot 2018.09-00002-g0b54a51eee (Sep 10 2018 - 19:41:39 -05ready
DRAM:  512 MiB
No match for driver 'omap_hsmmc'
No match for driver 'omap_hsmmc'
Some driC: 1
Loading Environment from EXT4... ** File not found /boot/uboot.env **

Regards,

3

Hi RobertCNelson,

First of all, thank you for your response. I forgot to add this information in my first post: I have followed the procedure of press S2 on startup, but it results in the system booting from eMMC instead of the SD card, and nothing else happens.

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I’ve changed the the board and it worked as spected. Both boards was using the same uboot version… I will investigate it more.