BBB_Allstar_v1.2.1 Will Not Boot

Buck · December 23, 2015, 6:36pm

Hi,

Using these instructions, I’ve tried to reload my BBB with the new version.

http://www.crompton.com/hamradio/BeagleBoneBlackAllstar/#image

Hardware: BBB Rev C

SDCARD: 8bg

Actions:

  Burned the img to 2 different cards (including the one I’m running) using Win32Imager

  Burned the img to 2 different cards (including the one I’m running) using linux dd

Result:

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  Blue Power Light on
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  NO Other Blue Light Activity
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  NO Boot
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  Nothing on HDMI Display
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Fall back: Re-Burned the original image to same card and system back running.

Suggestions?

Birton, N6UG

W0anm73 · December 24, 2015, 10:15pm

Hi Birton,

What image are you using? After downloading the image and unzip’ing the image, what is the md5sum (use Linux utility “md54um ”

It’s possible that you are getting a truncation of the file. Here is the latest md5um of BBB image that I downloaded:

md5sum BBB_Allstar_1.2.1.img

99351fca14d84c608be6420d556e967d BBB_Allstar_1.2.1.img

md5sum BBB_Allstar_v1.2.1.zip

7757d3ad29ee4635698d91c2dc4285ac BBB_Allstar_v1.2.1.zip

For Linux systems in creating the image, I unzip the image and use the dd command (as root) as follows:

unzip BBB_Allstar_v1.2.1.zip
dd if=BBB_Allstar_1.2.1.img of=/dev/sdh bs=1M

note: the device in the above example is the one my system recognizes for the sd card.

Also, if you are creating the image on a Linux system, you can check the image in a couple of ways… Once the image is created, remove and re-insert the sd-card. Determine the device that the sd-card is being recognized. In my case, it’s the “/dev/sdh” device. You can then check the partitions:

fsck -C -f /dev/sdh1 (fat file system)

fsck -C -f /dev/sdh2 (ext4 file system)

Also note, some Linux distributions will automatically mount the sd-card. You will need to umount the file system prior to running file check (fsck).

I suspect that the image may be corrupt.

73, Happy Holidays,

Chris, w0anm

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On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Birton buck@thebghouse.org wrote:

Hi,