20200621
Pulled these out of a box to have a reminder.. hadn’t touched the since 2015 per below
Powered from Genuine Asus (ex Asus tablet) Mains to USB wall wart rated output 5V 2A connected to the BBB 5V barrell jack power input
Found that all 3 revisions continually reboot after maybe every 60 seconds, but if powered via the miniiUSB port no suvh issues
This forum says to add a capacitor to the power input when using the %V input to allow for instantaneous loads
https://www.element14.com/community/thread/41564/l/element14-branded-beaglebone-black-wont-power-on?displayFullThread=true
20150816
BeagleBone Black Rev A5C = 2GB eMMC on board
Updating the OS
Ansgtrom was onboard eMMC as supplied and booted up fine onto HDTV using HDMI
Went looking for latest distro and found latest Debian distros at http://beagleboard.org/latest-images (Angstrom depreciated?)
- Downloaded runnable version, installed and used Win32DiskImager http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/ to output unzipped imgage to 16GB micro SD Card
- Loaded SDCard into BBB and held down User button whilst applying power.
- Booted ok into desktop
Downloaded latest ‘flash’ version targetted for 2GB eMMC, and preparred another SDCard as per above
Booted ok, and watch on TV as it flashed from SDcard into eMMC
After it powered off removed SDCard and restarted BBB, booted ok and displayed terminal login on screen
Debian minimal eMMC image – installing LXDE desktop
Logged into debian terminal and did:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get -y install lxde lxde-core lxde-icon-theme
Went through each command above and accepted options