Yesterday I got to this point. First Steps - Intel Edison step 2
So for some unknown reason, I seem to be going backwards.
Obviously about now I'm starting to make noises or worse.
I want to program this on my laptop and I'm not looking forward to repeating it.
Somewhere there is 3GB of Hard Drive used, but the 292MB file it downloaded is there.
I decided enough was enough for tonight, and since it came back with exactly the same screen AGAIN I chose Finish.
As it closed there were multiple warnings about the F:\ drive requiring formatting and this
So presumably after a disconnect and repower it might wake up and we can proceed.
Next Day
I did some searching on the internet to see if I could sort out why it didn't want to talk.
I tried the tool but it seemed to be stuck at this picture.
The Next never came up.
Windows knew the drivers were there
I had tried the manual method of flashing it using this document.
https://software.intel.com/en-us/node/637975
How do I update/flash the Intel
Edison board firmware manually?
Sadly no matter what I did the reboot and subsequent detection failed, so it never went through the process.
The sparkfun article suggested copying evrything to the drive, and then issue a command via PuTTy.
https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/edison-getting-started-guide#updating-the-firmware-image
The drive showed up as a plain drive with 767MB free in windows.
But the downloaded image contained a .ext4 file that was 1.34 GB but theirs was only 536MB.
PuTTy
About this stage I was ready to try anything.
I fired up PuTTy aimed it at the right COM Port and started a session.
When it connected, the prompt was not what was expected and it didn't know any commands.
So I tried entering "reboot" and amazingly it did.
It came back to the same point.
Again no commands seemed to work, so I entered "exit" to see if anything might happen.
To my surprise it did a few things and gave me the Login prompt.
Flash the image
Since I could force a reboot and the session stayed up, I thought I'd try the manual reflash again.
Basically you download and extract the image, then copy dfu-util.exe and libusb-1.0.dll into the same folder.\
Open a command prompt (i ran as Administrator) and change directory to the extracted file.
You then type 'flashall.bat" and it will ask you to reboot.
This time I issued the command reboot via the PuTTy session and amazingly things happened.
After a period of time it completed.
So I have a working version of fireware.
Firmware
There seems to be a newer version of firmware labelled
iot-devkit-prof-dev-image-edison-20160606-patch.zip
The internet suggest you can tell what version you are running by typing in a session
"configure_edison --version"
I seem to get this response
The configuration tool seems to now be happy.
Interestingly if you click on the link, it takes you to here https://software.intel.com/iot/hardware/edison/downloads
Latest Yocto* Poky image is the patched version.
So I now have a properly flashed Intel Edison.
I'm not going to connect to the WiFi just yet.
I want to setup a seperate network that I can use offline.
So that step can wait.
I need to stick the Grove shield back on and fit the LED and I need to work out what jumpers J8 and J9 do.
Hopefully all I need to do on my Laptop is install the drivers.
Mark
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