[fedora-arm] F20 Beta-5 on BeagleBone Black

[Peter Robinson]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Jos Vos <jos at xos.nl> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 10:09:47AM -0500, Robert Knight wrote:
>
>> I used a Fedora 20 Beta system running on a x86_64, running minicom, to
>> connect to the BeagleBone Black through a USB serial adapter.  I was
>> trying to provide enough details so that the experiment could be repeated.
>
> OK.  But my problem is that the BBB not even seems to start booting with
> the F20 image, even none of the USR LEDs turn on.
>
> When booting the Debian image in exactly the same way (even the same
> microSD card), the LEDs turn on after a second or so (and then I release
> the boot button) and Debian boots fine.
>
> I have currently nothing attached to the BBB, only a network cable and
> a power cable (USB or external, I tried both in both scenarios).
> Could that be a problem?

At the moment you must have a serial console attached to the serial
pins as with the 3.11.x kernel we don't have USB/HDMI support. Without
a serial console it will sit on the console awaiting input  to create
a user and to set a root password.

Peter