Writing image to SD Card using OS X Mavericks on a macbook pro

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I just received my new BBB and wanted to upgrade it to the latest Angstrom version. I have followed the instructions to the letter. When I insert the SD card into my mac using it’s SD card reader (not a separate SD Card reader via the USB) I am able to write the OS to the card successfully. Or at least it appears to be. The output I receive is:

3724+0 records in

3724+0 records out

3904897024 bytes transferred in 2459.711570 secs (1587543 bytes/sec)

However when I put the card into the BBB and power it up, I get 3 solid blue led lights just above the usb connection and nothing else. It doesn’t boot.

Note, that I have also wrote the eMMC-flasher version to the card and then insert into the BBB, hold down the button just above the SDCard and power it up. Again, nothing. I have waited up to a minute with the button down and nothing happens.

I am suspecting that when I write the image onto the SDCard using Mavericks on my macbook pro that it may not be doing it in the proper format.

Does anyone have any experience with this that might shed some light on what I am doing wrong?

Thanks

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There’s a dependency problem in the startup where it runs opkg to update something (there’s an SNNsomething start up script in /etc/init.d that’s causing it). It makes it block for many minutes before it gives up and moves on.

Best thing to do is to get a USB/Serial cable onto J1 and see what’s going on.

http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBone_Black_Serial