Powered the device off, inserted the SD card, and then powered device on
The LED lights on the board now stay solid and the device does not output anything (without taking these steps, just booting into the image that came on the board, 1 LED stays solid and 1 blinks and I am able to ssh into the machine and it operates as expected).
I have tried using a USB to UART cable in order to access the serial debug console, however when I connect that I am seeing no output from the device.
Hi, have you managed to boot a Fedora image on the Beagle-V Ahead board since your last post? I haven’t found any official resources for this. Could your boot problem be related to a bad device tree? I can’t boot from SD either by following the steps you sent, I’ve only the message:
Flash to an SD card. I used BalenaEtcher but you can also use cli using dd tool (sudo wipefs -a /dev/sdX && sudo dd if=fedora-disk-multi-desktops_thead_th1520-f38-20230516-002100.n.0-sda.raw of=/dev/sdX status=progress bs=4M)
Change the default boot option in /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf (line 6). It defaults to the Lpi4A boot option (f37P), change to BeagleV Ahead boot option (f37B)
Flash u-boot for the Beagle-V Ahead board into the EMMC. To do this, press and hold the usb button, then hit the reset button, then let go of the usb button in order to put the beagle into USB flash mode. Then run the following commands:
This allows you to access the serial debug console
Tried a few different FT232 cables and this is the one that worked
If one of the cables isn’t working try a different one or order a new one, for some reason sometimes some of them just do not work, I had to buy multiple
I recommend using minicom for communicating with the device