11:17 <set_> But...

11:18 <set_> @zmatt: I have been watching tutorials again!

11:18 <set_> learning about filesystems in general. Blah.

11:19 <set_> Is there a way to boot a rootfs on the BBB from buildroot?

11:19 <set_> Sorry...

11:19 <set_> Currently?

11:19 <set_> all the toolchains have gone bonkers.

11:20 <set_> I built a small buildroot rootfs but it is not booting for now. I tried everything that used to work. No go w/ current times.

11:22 <set_> GenTooMan: I performed an instructional mash of ideas and commands * infinity. Still, the BBB is not booting. Something happened at one point that has changed.

11:22 <set_> I am going to put my finger on it and push the button!

15:45 <Michael66> Something happened with my BeagleBone Blue when I was trying to install Python. Right now I can't see its WiFi and can access it via USB. I tried to restore using the latest images from the website and microSD, but it is not working. How to make it back to the factory settings?

15:50 <zmatt> reflashing eMMC with a fresh image can recover a beaglebone from anything other than hardware damage

15:51 <zmatt> easiest way is by download a "Flasher" image, writing that to SD card (using Etcher is recommended), then boot the beaglebone from that sd card and it'll proceed to reflash eMMC

15:53 <zmatt> for the beaglebone blue and other AM335x-based beaglebones (i.e. all except the AI and AI-64) the latest official flasher is "AM3358 Debian 10.3 2020-04-06 4GB eMMC IoT Flasher" from the "Flasher Debian images" section here: https://beagleboard.org/latest-images

15:55 <zmatt> (the links that do not explicitly say "Flasher" are normal bootable images. if you already have such an image flashed to SD card it's possible to convert it to a flasher by uncommenting a single line in the /boot/uEnv.txt on the SD card)

15:55 <zmatt> also, "trying to install python" ?? Python is installed by default

16:14 <zmatt> (python 3.7.3)

19:31 <amir36> Hi, I purchased a beagle bone ai 64 and I want to do bare metal programming on it (and I'm new to it). Is the processor programmed through jtag ? I see a jtag trace but no pin header, what's the footprint of it ? what kind of pin header should I solder on it ? Also, isthere alternative ways to program or debug ?again, I don't wanna do linux and

19:31 <amir36> just wanna get something running on it bare metal.

21:25 <zmatt> lol

21:39 <jkridner> grrr. have to stick around.

21:40 <jkridner> amir35: you can use jtag and openocd or TI CCS.

21:54 <zmatt> interesting that baremetal dev does seem fairly well supported, even on the A72.... let's just hope better programmers worked on this than on AM335x's StarterWare ;)

23:11 <set_> Hello!

23:11 <set_> Did anyone see my pleas for help?

23:12 <set_> I plead, darling orange-red, give me the key! I need to build...build...build.

23:20 <set_> WOrking distros!

23:20 <set_> GenTooMan: You live? You sit and breathe, taddle and wade, hold and care. It is amazing.

23:21 <set_> Now...GenTooMan: down to beeswax.

23:21 <set_> Where are these notes of yours that you hold so dear to your heart?

23:21 <set_> Tell me...

23:21 <set_> Or...

23:22 <set_> I will scream in purple.

23:22 <set_> I am not joking. I will.

23:22 <set_> I will do it.

23:22 <set_> magenta. Whatever.

23:24 <set_> Dually noted, the only reason I know of magenta is b/c of my color printer.

23:24 <set_> Magenta rules!

23:25 <set_> Okay. Let me be me and not joke like a toddler for once in my life.

23:25 <set_> Man, that is hard to say. The low down is this...

23:26 <set_> I am trying to help. By help, I mean build a working distro for someone to learn upon.

23:26 <set_> I have done it, today, before today, and it has booted.

23:27 <set_> But...for some reason, this time, the darn BBB no longer listens to my commands of u-boot, toolchain, kernel (Linux), and rootfs along w/ other files like MLO and u-boot.img.

23:28 <set_> I think I have tried everything so many times, blueness overshadows the land b/c of my failures in the last month.

23:28 <set_> Blah. There.

23:29 <set_> I do not get it. Everything builds fine but the boards shows no sign of life so far.

23:29 <set_> They used to...before "Nostradamus" ushered in his commandments to halt this little brother from learning more.

23:30 <GenTooMan> sounds like it failed to boot, have you checked it's boot information?

23:31 <set_> No.

23:31 <set_> What do you mean by boot info?

23:32 <set_> like pipe the stdout to a file along w/ stderr?

23:33 <set_> I will do it.

23:33 <set_> I will rebuild the buildroot kernel w/ the toolchain along w/ u-boot.

23:33 <set_> Then, instead of allowing it to build freely, I will save it in a file...ALL OF IT.

23:35 <GenTooMan> most devices have a console when you reset the device it should attempt to boot, spewing boot information out the console.

23:35 <set_> Right. Mine...has no info. Blank and does not allow u-boot to show itself, it does.

23:36 <set_> Some big changed. I will just port it to a file. I mean...

23:36 <set_> Dig through some logs or not help at all...hands are heavy. I will make the log.

23:38 <set_> Everyone always says, make the logs. Why have I not listened?

23:39 <GenTooMan> umm you were in a hurry and realized it all too late? :D

23:39 <set_> Nope. I am too lazy for Linux. I might as well hang up my hat.

23:39 <set_> Oh!

23:39 <set_> I know what happened. I am a complete fool and thought it would just work.

23:40 <set_> Ha.

23:40 <set_> What a moron I am for thinking things are just magic.

23:40 <set_> Anyway...

23:40 <set_> I will build again and again but w/ L O G S.

23:41 <set_> GenTooMan: I built the buildroot package w/ three separate kernels, two toolchains, and many, many, many different forms of u-boot.

23:42 <set_> I should have known.

23:43 <set_> My star glazed eyes and the triple vision pushed me to Windows 11. Argh.

23:43 <set_> But! One thing I did learn.../mnt and /media and to know the difference.

23:50 <set_> the /mnt is for fixed media while /media is for removable media but it is a choice really.

23:54 <set_> So...

23:56 <set_> I am mozying over to Linux in a bit. Pray for rain!