Rev C Beagle Board Black needs to be re flashed

[strandbiker1]

My Rev C board EMMC needs to be re flashed. It will not boot when power is applied and the EMMC flashers I have downloaded to a SD card do not work. Please provide me with a direct link to a working flash program for the Rev C board. I have been given several links to "latest images" but there are numerous ones to choose from. Is the Emmc flasher different from the Linux operating system itself. I tried to boot using this file without success. No LED's lit up (BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.8-lxde-4gb-armhf-2015-01-25-4gb).

Thanks

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[adafruit_support_rick]

We have this tutorial available
https://learn.adafruit.com/beaglebone-b ... ng-systems

[strandbiker1]

We have this tutorial available
https://learn.adafruit.com/beaglebone-b ... ng-systems

Thank you so much for the help. In reviewing your documentation, it appears to cover the 2 GB version of BBB. Is there a difference when reloaded a 4GB version of BBB?

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[tdicola]

I've used these images to flash my eMMC without any issues on a rev C board (4 GB eMMC): http://beagleboard.org/latest-images You want the middle ones that say eMMC flasher. If those don't work (and remember you might need to hold down the boot button as your apply power to the board so that it boots from the SD card with the flasher image), try asking in the BeagleBone Black support group for the official image and process they recommend: http://beagleboard.org/community/forums

[strandbiker1]

I've used these images to flash my eMMC without any issues on a rev C board (4 GB eMMC): http://beagleboard.org/latest-images You want the middle ones that say eMMC flasher. If those don't work (and remember you might need to hold down the boot button as your apply power to the board so that it boots from the SD card with the flasher image), try asking in the BeagleBone Black support group for the official image and process they recommend: http://beagleboard.org/community/forums

Yes, I saw that page before and the middle of the page that refers to the Beagle Board Black. I was confused as they only referred to the 2 GB model. I was told that I needed to get a different version EMMC flasher for the 4GB Rev C version. Has anyone been successful in updating their Rev C, 4 GB board, with these flashers? Sorry for the e mails, but I have been working on this for several days. yes I know about the boot button. I get my 5V light going on, but when I power up the board after depressing the button, I get no LED lights flashing.

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[strandbiker1]

I've used these images to flash my eMMC without any issues on a rev C board (4 GB eMMC): http://beagleboard.org/latest-images You want the middle ones that say eMMC flasher. If those don't work (and remember you might need to hold down the boot button as your apply power to the board so that it boots from the SD card with the flasher image), try asking in the BeagleBone Black support group for the official image and process they recommend: http://beagleboard.org/community/forums

Okay all, thank you for the help, I was able to reload and boot the BBB Rev C finally. Only took 7 minutes to accomplish before all 4 LED's lit up.

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[tdicola]

Oh no problem, glad to hear it's working for you now. Thanks for the followup!

[strandbiker1]

What is the difference between bonescript and linux s/w packages. How can you determine what your BBB is running?

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[tdicola]

Sorry couldn't reply sooner but bonescript is the javascript-based programming language the BeagleBone Black ships with to support simple programming out of the box. Since it's just a Debian linux machine though you can install and use almost any programming language though like python, ruby, C++, etc. If you have more questions about bonescript you might ask folks on the BeagleBone Black forums: http://beagleboard.org/community/forums

[lenmeld]

Hi, so I flashed "BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.8-lxde-4gb-armhf-2015-03-01-4gb.img" all well and good.
However, it's asking for the password for ROOT and I've run out off guesses! Please clue me in. Thanks

[tdicola]

Oh try pressing enter with no password being entered for the user root. The default debian install usually uses root with no password (they kind of hide it on this setup page). Then if you want to set a password later you can run the passwd command once logged in (it will ask for a new password to set for the current user).

[lenmeld]

Oh try pressing enter with no password being entered for the user root. The default debian install usually uses root with no password (they kind of hide it on this setup page). Then if you want to set a password later you can run the passwd command once logged in (it will ask for a new password to set for the current user).

I started with no password as that's the way the adafruit BBB was before I clobbered the eMMC and then flashed with "BBB-eMMC-flasher-debian-7.8-lxde-4gb-armhf-2015-03-01-4gb.img" to get the BBB operational again. Like I said I've tried a slew of guesses with no luck.
So, again anyone out their knows of the password for this flash version???

Stuck in limbo.....

[tdicola]

Oh that's odd, try asking on the Beaglebone Black support group as the folks there make the OS images and should be able to say for sure: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!categ ... bone-black

One other thing to try is user 'debian' and password 'temppwd' (no quotes on either of them). IIRC that's the default password for some older Debian images that were floating around for the Beaglebone Black. Worth a quick shot to see if it's the same for your flashed image too.