Issues to boot snappy on the beaglebone black

[Alexander Sack]

Hi,

OK. Would you mind filing a bug against
https://bugs.launchpad.net/snappy with your initial mail as
description and title like "snappy core 15.04 fails to boot on
beagleboneblack A5C"?

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Sujeevan (svij) Vijayakumaran
<svij at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> it's revision A5C.
>
> -- svij
>
> Am 18.05.2015 um 10:08 schrieb Alexander Sack:
>> Hi,
>>
>> what beaglebone revision are you using?
>>
>> On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Sujeevan Vijayakumaran
>> <svij at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> I tried to boot snappy on the beaglebone black and I had a few issues,
>>> which I resolved, but I don't know why and where the exact problem is.
>>>
>>> I followed the installation guide for the beaglebone black[1]. I did this:
>>>
>>> $ wget http://releases.ubuntu.com/15.04/ubuntu-15.04-snappy-armhf-bb.img.xz
>>> $ unxz ubuntu-15.04-snappy-armhf-bb.img.xz
>>> $ sudo dd if=ubuntu-15.04-snappy-armhf-bbb.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=32M
>>>
>>> This was fine so far.
>>>
>>> Then I inserted the micro sd card to the BBB, pressed the S2-Boot-Button
>>> and connected the power. This is the output on the serial console:
>>> http://paste.ubuntu.com/11163808/
>>>
>>> Then I tried booting without pressing the boot-button:
>>> http://paste.ubuntu.com/11163841/
>>>
>>> Both variants aren't booting, so I found the solution here[2]:
>>>
>>> I've mounted the system-boot partition of the micro SD card on my laptop
>>> and edited uEnv.txt. I've changed the following line from:
>>>
>>> uenvcmd=load mmc ${bootpart} ${loadaddr} snappy-system.txt; env import
>>> -t $loadaddr $filesize; run snappy_boot
>>>
>>> to:
>>>
>>> uenvcmd=load mmc ${mmcdev}:${mmcpart} ${loadaddr} snappy-system.txt; env
>>> import -t $loadaddr $filesize; run snappy_boot
>>>
>>> Next step: booting without pressing the boot-button (like the docs
>>> says): http://paste.ubuntu.com/11163853/
>>>
>>> Final step:
>>> Booting the device with pressing the boot-button. It worked on this point.
>>>
>>> I don't know what the exact problem of my issue is. I've fixed it, but I
>>> don't think this is an intentional behaviour. Anyway I think, that the
>>> image should work on my beaglebone without modifying the uEnv.txt.
>>>
>>> -- Sujeevan (svij)
>>>
>>> [1] https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/start/
>>> [2]
>>> https://askubuntu.com/questions/576227/ubuntu-core-webdm-alpha-for-beaglebone-black-not-booting
>>>
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