Gem with PB2 industrial

giuliomoro

What operating system are you using?

Knallberto

I am on windows 11 (I tried 192.168.6.2 because this way I can access IDE from my browser but I also tried 192.168.7.2)

I tried flashing the emmc from the beagle 6.12 image but it is not working as well.
I think there is an error while flashing. The output is here: beagler-flasher-log

giuliomoro

maybe mounting the SD card on Windows when you flashed it changed the boot partition in a way that makes the rsync command fail? You should report that issue on forums.beagleboard.org , as it's their issue.

Knallberto

giuliomoro You should report that issue on forums.beagleboard.org , as it's their issue.

I did and they posted a update fix Post. I will try it on monday.

Knallberto

I wanted to grab a boot log to understand why only 512MB of RAM was detected on the PocketBeagle 2 Industrial with the Bela image.

I flashed a fresh SD card with the updated image and now it seems to work as expected. Running free -h shows:

root@bela:~/Bela# free -h
total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           944Mi       164Mi       574Mi       840Ki       221Mi       779Mi
Swap:          1.5Gi          0B       1.5Gi

So the full 1GB RAM now appears to be available.

The next step would be flashing the system to eMMC. It worked using the updated bb-beagle-flasher fix from the BeagleBoard forum (Post). Is there a way to integrate that upgraded flasher into the Bela image?

Knallberto

Hi, just wanted to check in on the eMMC flashing topic.

Is there any update on integrating the updated bb-beagle-flasher fix into the Bela image, or any related information?

Thanks!

giuliomoro

sorry I was still waiting to get my own PB2I but it hasn't come in yet ...
just made a new image, if you fancy trying it ? https://github.com/BelaPlatform/gem-image-builder/releases/tag/v1.0.2

Knallberto

thanks, perfect, this is booting from eMMC now

Knallberto

After flashing, my Bela patch did not load at first. Just as a heads-up in case anyone runs into the same issue:

When booting from eMMC, no overlays were loaded by default. I had to edit the file
/boot/firmware/extlinux/extlinux.conf
and manually add the required overlays to the fdtoverlaysline.

After that, everything worked as expected.

giuliomoro

I guess one way is to add the overlay to the eMMC target as well. An alternative/addition would be to make sure to copy that over, but that should be done by beagle-flasher in my view.

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