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

Nigel Sollars nsollars at gmail.com
Tue Nov 19 16:32:31 UTC 2013


Hi,

Was just going to add:

http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/TTL-232R-3V3/768-1015-ND/1836393

This was my first stop before doing anything with the BBB.

Regards


On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
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