Setting up Beaglebone Black
This is my post for setting beaglebone for connecting to airvantage. For this beaglebone needs to be setup. For windows machine follow the following steps :
- Connect beaglebone to USB port of pc using usb cable.
- Install drivers for beaglebone from http://beagleboard.org/getting-started. It may take a while to install the drivers.
- Launch : http://192.168.7.2 to log into the board.
Next connect the beaglebone black to internet using Ethernet or Wifi.
Open Cloud9 IDE by going to the address http://192.168.7.2:3000/ .
Then i noticed an article on the element14 site to update the image of debian. The factory installed version has many problems. I tried to login from the user debian to root but it asks for a password which is not there. You will always notice a authorization failure in this case.
So to avoid these problem update your image. This can be done in two ways :
- By Flashing the image to emmc:
- Download the latest image from http://beagleboard.org/latest-images.
- The downloaded image is a .img.xz file. Then download 7zip to decompress the archive.
- Use 7-zip to decompress the SD card .img file. In my case 7zip was not able to open the archive.I had the following error saying “cannot open file as archive.”
- So i used my ubuntu pc to flash the sd card with the image.
- In ubuntu just click on the link and restore the image on the sd card.
- Now power down the beaglebone insert the sd card and press down the BOOT button and power up the board.
- If using BeagleBone Black and the image is meant to program your on-board eMMC, you'll need to wait while the programming occurs. When the flashing is complete, all 4 USRx LEDs will be steady on or off. The latest Debian flasher images automatically power down the board upon completion. This can take up to 45 minutes. Power-down your board, remove the SD card and apply power again to be complete.
- In my case i had errors in this case, the board started with the emmc flashing and the user leds started blinking in a sequence. But after 5 minutes this stopped and all of them started to glow. I powered the board down to see if the process is over but i noticed that the board wasn’t booting. I was not able to ssh into the board. So i used the other method of using an sd card to boot the board.
- By using sd card :
- Download the latest image from http://beagleboard.org/latest-images (bootable sd card image)
- Decompress the image using 7zip and flash it to the sd card using win32disk imager on windows or restore it in ubuntu.
- Now power down the beaglebone insert the sd card and press down the BOOT button and power up the board.
- For booting with sd card this is all you have to do. The board will boot from the card.