v0.3.4
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:
- added support for Bela Mini
- automatic detection of the board you run on (e.g.: BeagleBone Green, Black, Black Wireless, Pocket Beagle), so the appropriate device-tree is loaded for each.
- support for uboot overlays: add more overlays to
uEnv.txt
withuboot_overlay_addrX=
where X is a number between 0 and 7
Advanced usage:
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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