OS is not loaded by BBB from SD card | bbb image 2017.01

[dimonik]

I wrote
kali-2017.01-bbb.img
to microSD card,
inserted it into BeagleBoneBlack.

Using FT232RL USB<->Serial board, i managed to connect to BeagleBoneBlack.

The issue: BBB can't read from SD card, constantly fall back to load from eMMC.

[dimonik]

I continued to dig to the roots of the problem.

It is NOT corruption of SD card.
BBB can't read microSD ONLY after writing 2017.01 image

I tried both commands:
sudo dd bs=512k if=kali-2017.01-bbb.img | pv | sudo dd of=/dev/mmcblk0
sudo dd bs=4M if=kali-2017.01-bbb.img | pv | sudo dd of=/dev/mmcblk0

And with both of them the result is:
U-Boot> mmc info
Card did not respond to voltage select!

While the same card formatted with one fat32 partition respond as:
U-Boot> mmc info
Device: OMAP SD/MMC
Manufacturer: ID: 27
OEM: 5048
etc...

[dimonik]

The reason is that image can't be read after written by dd to SD card.

This is my workaround:

• still use dd to write image to SD card;
• after, re-insert this SD into the laptop, usually laptop easily read such cards despite that BBB can't;
• make two directories on your laptop: part1 and part2;
• copy everything from SD card's smaller volume into directory part1
• copy everything from SD card's larger volume into directory part2
• start Gparted utility on your laptop;
• using Gparted delete from SD card 1st and 2nd partition;
• open menu Device, choose Create Partition Table... select ms-dos type and OK
• open menu Partition, choose New, create new partition (128 MiB, fat16, label=p1);
• after, create another partition the same way but with this params (size up to the end, ext4, label=p2);
• copy everything from part1 to the partition labeled as p1;
• copy everything from part2 to the partition labeled as p2;
• unmount p1 and p2 from your OS;
• eject SD card.

Now you can use this card to boot BBB successfully!

[steev]

Are you still having this issue? I can't reproduce here at all to have to essentially remake the sdcard, so I'm not entirely sure what the difference is. What sdcard are you using?