[fedora-arm] BeagleBone Black with FC23

[Steve Underwood]

Hi,

I have a BeagleBone Black, original version, which has been running an
older version of Fedora just fine. I tried putting
Fedora-Xfce-armhfp-23-10-sda.raw.xz on a 32GB micro SD card, and I can't
get it to work. Most times I boot and get nothing on the screen.
However, I can make an SSH connection to the board, so the board has
booted. A few times when I boot I get the the initial text screen, and
then it goes blank. The installation notes mention there are quirks
here. An even fewer times I get the text screen, followed by the GUI
initial setup screen. At this point SSH can make a connection to the
board. However, as soon as I move the mouse a little the machine locks
up. The screen stops responding, and I can no longer use SSH to make a
connection to the board. That seems to happen every time I get to the
initial setup screen.

Does anyone have their Beaglebone Black working nicely with FC23?

Regards,
Steve.

[Peter Robinson]

Hi,
I have a BeagleBone Black, original version, which has been running an older
version of Fedora just fine. I tried putting
Fedora-Xfce-armhfp-23-10-sda.raw.xz on a 32GB micro SD card, and I can't get
it to work. Most times I boot and get nothing on the screen. However, I can
make an SSH connection to the board, so the board has booted. A few times
when I boot I get the the initial text screen, and then it goes blank. The
installation notes mention there are quirks here. An even fewer times I get
the text screen, followed by the GUI initial setup screen. At this point SSH
can make a connection to the board. However, as soon as I move the mouse a
little the machine locks up. The screen stops responding, and I can no
longer use SSH to make a connection to the board. That seems to happen every
time I get to the initial setup screen.

You might want to add a "console=ttyO0" to the append line in
/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf file

Does anyone have their Beaglebone Black working nicely with FC23?

Yes, about 4 of them including Black and Green, I don't use hdmi or GUIs though

[Steve Underwood]

Hi Peter,

Post by Peter Robinson

Hi,
I have a BeagleBone Black, original version, which has been running an older
version of Fedora just fine. I tried putting
Fedora-Xfce-armhfp-23-10-sda.raw.xz on a 32GB micro SD card, and I can't get
it to work. Most times I boot and get nothing on the screen. However, I can
make an SSH connection to the board, so the board has booted. A few times
when I boot I get the the initial text screen, and then it goes blank. The
installation notes mention there are quirks here. An even fewer times I get
the text screen, followed by the GUI initial setup screen. At this point SSH
can make a connection to the board. However, as soon as I move the mouse a
little the machine locks up. The screen stops responding, and I can no
longer use SSH to make a connection to the board. That seems to happen every
time I get to the initial setup screen.

You might want to add a "console=ttyO0" to the append line in
/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf file

Does anyone have their Beaglebone Black working nicely with FC23?

Yes, about 4 of them including Black and Green, I don't use hdmi or GUIs though

I found that adding "console=tty00" made the initial text boot screen
appear each time I tried, but the GUI still failed to work. I then tried
the server version of Fedora 23 with "console=tty00". Sometimes I saw
the text boot screen for a few seconds, and sometimes I didn't. Either
way I was left with a black screen at the end of the boot process. I
know the boot had completed, as I could use SSH to connect - although
not log in, since the initial setup had not been completed.

I tried editing the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow to remove the root
password, and I tried to allow password free login in the sshd_config,
but I still couldn't use SSH to log on.

Regards,
Steve

[Peter Robinson]

Post by Peter Robinson

I have a BeagleBone Black, original version, which has been running an older
version of Fedora just fine. I tried putting
Fedora-Xfce-armhfp-23-10-sda.raw.xz on a 32GB micro SD card, and I can't get
it to work. Most times I boot and get nothing on the screen. However, I can
make an SSH connection to the board, so the board has booted. A few times
when I boot I get the the initial text screen, and then it goes blank. The
installation notes mention there are quirks here. An even fewer times I get
the text screen, followed by the GUI initial setup screen. At this point SSH
can make a connection to the board. However, as soon as I move the mouse a
little the machine locks up. The screen stops responding, and I can no
longer use SSH to make a connection to the board. That seems to happen every
time I get to the initial setup screen.

You might want to add a "console=ttyO0" to the append line in
/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf file

Does anyone have their Beaglebone Black working nicely with FC23?

Yes, about 4 of them including Black and Green, I don't use hdmi or GUIs though

I found that adding "console=tty00" made the initial text boot screen appear
each time I tried, but the GUI still failed to work. I then tried the server
version of Fedora 23 with "console=tty00". Sometimes I saw the text boot
screen for a few seconds, and sometimes I didn't. Either way I was left with
a black screen at the end of the boot process. I know the boot had
completed, as I could use SSH to connect - although not log in, since the
initial setup had not been completed.

When you say "black screen" do you mean on HDMI or serial console?

I tried editing the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow to remove the root password,
and I tried to allow password free login in the sshd_config, but I still
couldn't use SSH to log on.

Do you use arm-image-installer to do this?

[Steve Underwood]

Post by Peter Robinson

Post by Peter Robinson

I have a BeagleBone Black, original version, which has been running an older
version of Fedora just fine. I tried putting
Fedora-Xfce-armhfp-23-10-sda.raw.xz on a 32GB micro SD card, and I can't get
it to work. Most times I boot and get nothing on the screen. However, I can
make an SSH connection to the board, so the board has booted. A few times
when I boot I get the the initial text screen, and then it goes blank. The
installation notes mention there are quirks here. An even fewer times I get
the text screen, followed by the GUI initial setup screen. At this point SSH
can make a connection to the board. However, as soon as I move the mouse a
little the machine locks up. The screen stops responding, and I can no
longer use SSH to make a connection to the board. That seems to happen every
time I get to the initial setup screen.

You might want to add a "console=ttyO0" to the append line in
/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf file

Does anyone have their Beaglebone Black working nicely with FC23?

Yes, about 4 of them including Black and Green, I don't use hdmi or GUIs though

I found that adding "console=tty00" made the initial text boot screen appear
each time I tried, but the GUI still failed to work. I then tried the server
version of Fedora 23 with "console=tty00". Sometimes I saw the text boot
screen for a few seconds, and sometimes I didn't. Either way I was left with
a black screen at the end of the boot process. I know the boot had
completed, as I could use SSH to connect - although not log in, since the
initial setup had not been completed.

When you say "black screen" do you mean on HDMI or serial console?

I am using HDMI. I don't have a USB-serial device (not a TTL level one,
at least) handy to try the serial port.

Post by Peter Robinson

I tried editing the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow to remove the root password,
and I tried to allow password free login in the sshd_config, but I still
couldn't use SSH to log on.

Do you use arm-image-installer to do this?

arm-image-installer just seems to turn off the root password for console
login, by changing /etc/passwd, when you give it the --norootpass
option. I tried editing the files myself. Actually, I only removed the
'X' from the root line in /etc/passwd, and allowed password free login
in /etc/sshd_config. I was incorrect when I previously said I changed
/etc/shadow.

Regards,
Steve

[Paul Whalen]

----- Original Message -----

Post by Steve Underwood
Hi Peter,

Post by Peter Robinson

Hi,
I have a BeagleBone Black, original version, which has been running an older
version of Fedora just fine. I tried putting
Fedora-Xfce-armhfp-23-10-sda.raw.xz on a 32GB micro SD card, and I can't get
it to work. Most times I boot and get nothing on the screen. However, I can
make an SSH connection to the board, so the board has booted. A few times
when I boot I get the the initial text screen, and then it goes blank. The
installation notes mention there are quirks here. An even fewer times I get
the text screen, followed by the GUI initial setup screen. At this point SSH
can make a connection to the board. However, as soon as I move the mouse a
little the machine locks up. The screen stops responding, and I can no

I had similar issues when testing f23, it's noted in the hw support overview[1],
but haven't tested it since. Do you have a powered USB hub you could try?

Post by Steve Underwood

Post by Peter Robinson

longer use SSH to make a connection to the board. That seems to happen every
time I get to the initial setup screen.

You might want to add a "console=ttyO0" to the append line in
/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf file

Does anyone have their Beaglebone Black working nicely with FC23?

Yes, about 4 of them including Black and Green, I don't use hdmi or GUIs though

I found that adding "console=tty00" made the initial text boot screen
appear each time I tried, but the GUI still failed to work. I then tried
the server version of Fedora 23 with "console=tty00". Sometimes I saw
the text boot screen for a few seconds, and sometimes I didn't. Either
way I was left with a black screen at the end of the boot process. I
know the boot had completed, as I could use SSH to connect - although
not log in, since the initial setup had not been completed.
I tried editing the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow to remove the root
password, and I tried to allow password free login in the sshd_config,
but I still couldn't use SSH to log on.

There is a work around in the FAQ[2] you can try.

Paul

[1] - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/F23/Installation/Hardware_Status
[2] - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/F23/Installation#FAQ

Post by Steve Underwood
Regards,
Steve
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[Steve Underwood]

Post by Paul Whalen
----- Original Message -----

Post by Steve Underwood
Hi Peter,

Post by Peter Robinson

Hi,
I have a BeagleBone Black, original version, which has been running an older
version of Fedora just fine. I tried putting
Fedora-Xfce-armhfp-23-10-sda.raw.xz on a 32GB micro SD card, and I can't get
it to work. Most times I boot and get nothing on the screen. However, I can
make an SSH connection to the board, so the board has booted. A few times
when I boot I get the the initial text screen, and then it goes blank. The
installation notes mention there are quirks here. An even fewer times I get
the text screen, followed by the GUI initial setup screen. At this point SSH
can make a connection to the board. However, as soon as I move the mouse a
little the machine locks up. The screen stops responding, and I can no

I had similar issues when testing f23, it's noted in the hw support overview[1],
but haven't tested it since. Do you have a powered USB hub you could try?

Post by Steve Underwood

Post by Peter Robinson

longer use SSH to make a connection to the board. That seems to happen every
time I get to the initial setup screen.

You might want to add a "console=ttyO0" to the append line in
/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf file

Does anyone have their Beaglebone Black working nicely with FC23?

Yes, about 4 of them including Black and Green, I don't use hdmi or GUIs though

I found that adding "console=tty00" made the initial text boot screen
appear each time I tried, but the GUI still failed to work. I then tried
the server version of Fedora 23 with "console=tty00". Sometimes I saw
the text boot screen for a few seconds, and sometimes I didn't. Either
way I was left with a black screen at the end of the boot process. I
know the boot had completed, as I could use SSH to connect - although
not log in, since the initial setup had not been completed.
I tried editing the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow to remove the root
password, and I tried to allow password free login in the sshd_config,
but I still couldn't use SSH to log on.

There is a work around in the FAQ[2] you can try.
Paul

I missed that FAQ. Thanks Paul. I now have the minimal image installed
in a state where I am logged into it as root. This should be good enough
for me. I didn't really need the GUI version I started out with.

Regards,
Steve