[meta-ti] Cannot boot beaglebone image

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 10:57:32AM +1200, Bernard Mentink wrote:
> Hi There,
> 
> Very new to Yocto and the Ti BSP so be nice ;-)
> 
> I have built the minimal image and created an SD card with the boot and
> rootfs partitions ..
> 
> I have copied MLO (first), u-boot.img, am335x-bone.dtb, u-boot-spl.bin and
> uImage to the "boot" partition.
> (I am not sure if the am33xx file or the spl file is necessary ..)
> I have un-tar'ed the root filesystem to the "rootfs" partition.
> 
> However when I boot this card, all I see on the beaglebone black is 4
> lights on continuous ..
> There is no serial port over USB to see what is going on, and no ethernet
> device shows up, even after including dropbear in the image ..
> 
> I am at a loss ... there is no "standard" serial port to see if u-boot is
> coming up at all ..

Did you have anything in eMMC?


> By the way, to sucessfully build meta-ti, I had to add the following line
> to my local.conf   ..
> BBMASK ?= ".*/meta-ti/recipes-(misc|bsp/formfactor|graphics/mesa)/"
> 
> ... if I did not do that, the build failed with all the Angstom licencing
> rubbish (it should not be in there .... I want a "distro-less" build  ;)

Yes, that is explained in README, which nobody reads :(

-- 
Denys