Booting the Beaglebone

Plug in the SD card into the Beaglebone. To power it up, connect the Beaglebone to your computer via the USB cable provided. bject the Beaglebone via the Ubuntu disk utility SURJUDP. , WULHG HMHFWLnJ LW YLD WhH fiOH PDnDJHU, EuW WhDW did not work for me. Upon every boot, the Beaglebone is in ‘storage mode’ by default. eence, this step is required to switch it to ‘network mode’.

The next step is to set up the serial console so that you can interact with the board. There are two possible ways: either a serial console, or the Linux ‘screen’ command. cor the first method, install Minicom/Gtkterm (I prefer minicom, which you can install with sudo apt-get install minicom and run with sudo minicom -s). Configure it by selecting the correct USB port, set the baud rate to 115OMM and software control, and both the hardware controls to kOkb. The other way uses the Linux ‘screen’ command, which is much easier—just run screen /dev/ttyUSB1 115200 (in most cases the virtual USB serial port is ttyUSB1; if it does not work, try ttyUSB0). If all went well, you should be greeted with a familiar Angstrom log-in in the terminal as shown in cigure 1. The username is ‘ root’; for the password, just hit ‘Enter’ and you should see the prompt root@beaglebone:~# after that.

In the next article in this series, we will do some tinkering and a few mini projects on the Beaglebone. Meanwhile, you can take a look at some amazing hacks/ projects being done by fellow hackers, developers and hobbyists around the world on the Beaglebone, at http:// beagleboard. org/ project/.