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Update edison flashing instructions
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danamlewis committed Apr 12, 2019
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### All platforms:
- Once the screen comes up, press enter a few times to wake things up. This will give you a "console" view of what is happening on your Edison.
- Now you will see a login prompt for the edison on the console screen. Login using the username "root" (all lowercase) and no password. This will have us ready to reboot from the command line when we are ready.
- Now you will see a login prompt for the edison on the console screen. Login using the username "root" (all lowercase) and no password. This will have us ready to reboot from the command line when we are ready.
- - Note! If you do not have your edison password at this point don't panic. We are only logging in to reboot the edison and that can be accomplished via the black button on the explorer board as well. Without the root password you may continue.
- Don't resize your console window: it will likely mess up your terminal's line wrapping. (Once you get wifi working and connect with SSH you can resize safely.)

## Flashing image onto the Edison
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- In the "flash window" from the Download Image instructions above, run `flashall.bat`

### All platforms:
- The flashall script will ask you to reboot the Edison. Go back to your console window and type `reboot`. Switch back to the other window and you will see the flash process begin. You can monitor both the flash and console windows throughout the rest of the flash process. If nothing else works and you are feeling brave, you can try pulling the Edison out and reconnecting it to the board to start the flash process.
- The flashall script will ask you to reboot the Edison.
- - If you have your edison root password: Go back to your console window and type `reboot`.
- - If you do not have your edison root password: Press the black button on the explorer board until the LED between the usb connectors shuts off. Then press it again until the light comes back on.
- Switch back to the other window and you will see the flash process begin. You can monitor both the flash and console windows throughout the rest of the flash process. If nothing else works and you are feeling brave, you can try pulling the Edison out and reconnecting it to the board to start the flash process.
- It will take about 10 minutes to flash from Mac or Windows. If the step that flashall says should take up to 10 minutes completes in seconds, then the flash did not complete successfully, perhaps because you didn't set up the virtual memory / swap settings correctly. If you’re using a Raspberry Pi, it may take up to 45 minutes, and for the first 10-15 minutes it may appear like nothing is happening, but eventually you will start to see a progress bar in the console.
- After flashing is complete and the Edison begins rebooting, watch the console: you may get asked to type `control-D` to continue after one or more reboots. If so, press `Ctrl-d` to allow it to continue.
- After several more reboots (just about when you'll start to get concerned that it is stuck in a loop), you should get a login prompt. If so, congratulations! Your Edison is flashed. The default password is `edison`.
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