My Beagle Board Out of the box experience

What's in the box?

Box should have a 3"x3" OMAP3530 Board.

Is their any factory default software flashed onto this board?

Yes, x-loader and u-boot should have been flashed on to the board.

How can I execute factory defaults from Beagle Board?

Setup

1. Make sure Beagle power is in OFF state
2. Connect UART cable to a UART port of Window/Linux/Mac machine
3. Have terminal program, such as TeraTerm, HyperTerminal, or Minicom, running on the host machine.
4. Configure the terminal program for (BAUD RATE - 115200, DATA - 8 bit, PARITY- none, STOP - 1bit, FLOW CONTROL - none)
5. Connect a LCD Monitor to DVI/HDMI port on Beagle Board.
6. Connect an externally powered speaker to audio out jack on Beagle Board.
7. Connect a TV (NTSC-M) to S-video port.
8. Power ON LCD, TV and audio speakers.

NOTE: Connecting all peripherals (mentioned above) is not mandatory, start using the one you have.

Powering Beagle Board

1. Power ON the Beagle Board by one of the following options
• Option A: External Power Adapter can be used to power the board.
• Option B: USB mini B to USB A cable can be used to power the board. Just connect the USB A side to Host machine and USB mini A side of cable to Beagle board.

Experience

This should bring up u-boot and the following Board Diagnostic tests will be performed:

• The UART terminal should start displaying u-boot messages
• A Beagle Board Logo will appear on DVI LCD screen.
• Color bars should be displayed on TV over S-Video port.
• A tone will be played on Audio out / speakers.
• LEDs USR0 and USR1 will glow
• The terminal screen should look like

40T

Texas Instruments X-Loader 1.41
Starting on with MMC
Reading boot sector

717372 Bytes Read from MMC
Starting OS Bootloader from MMC...


U-Boot 1.3.3 (Jul 10 2008 - 16:30:47)

OMAP3530-GP rev 2, CPU-OPP2 L3-165MHz
OMAP3 Beagle Board + LPDDR/NAND
DRAM:  128 MB
NAND:  256 MiB
*** Warning - bad CRC or NAND, using default environment

In:    serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
Audio Tone on Speakers  ... complete
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
OMAP3 beagleboard.org #

What next?

• Can try to compile Linux Kernel Image directly from OMAP GIT
• Can try some sample images and sources
• Learn how to compile sources and generate images for Beagle
• Try some quick Demos

Questions?

• Have a look to official FAQ and community FAQ
• Have a look to community beginners guide
• If FAQs don't cover your question or are unclear, ask at mailing list or IRC