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@giuliomoro giuliomoro released this 11 Jul 17:18
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v0.3.5a
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Usage:
follow the instructions here to uncompress the image and flash the resulting .img file to an SD card, put it into your Bela and boot the board. Sorted!

Most relevant changes:

  • Drivers are no longer required on Windows or Mac (starting from OS X 10.11). On Windows, with no drivers, the board will show up at 192.168.6.2; on Mac, with no drivers, it will show up at 192.168.7.2 (or bela.local/).

Advanced usage:

  • some Beaglebones will not manage to boot from an SD card flashed with this image without a little help. In order to boot correctly on such an image, you will have to jumper pin P8_43 to P8_01 (GND) before you power on the board, to force the board to boot from the SD card. This is equivalent to pressing the "USER" button on the BeagleBone ( at the back just above the SD card slot), however the buttons tend to be fiddly, so jumpering is often preferred. Once the board boots successfully, you should run /opt/Bela/bela_bootloader.sh once in order to copy the new bootloader to the eMMC so that next time it will boot without the jumpering/USER button. If you want to flash the eMMC with the content of the SD card (see below), then you can skip the bootloader copy step, as it will be copied as part of the eMMC flashing process.

  • To flash the emmc once you boot from the SD card:

systemctl start bela_flash_emmc

you can then monitor the progress (not much really) with

journalctl -fu bela_flash_emmc

You will know it's done when the solid LEDs will power off and you only have one or more blinking.

to make it so that it will always flash the emmc upon every boot ( e.g.: to flash multiple BBBs):

systemctl enable bela_flash_emmc

to disable this:

systemctl disable bela_flash_emmc
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