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May 01 13:28:40 <kremlin> m
May 01 20:07:30 <zmatt> :q
May 02 01:47:34 <vish> Hi, I've forgot my linux login creds and would like to flash my beaglebone and haven't been successful in doing so, Could anyone here help me out. I'm new to this beaglebone but have experience working with pi. Thanks
May 02 01:59:18 <zmatt> vish: note that forgetting your credentials isn't necessarily a reason to reflash (it is certainly possible to boot from sd card and then mount eMMC and reset a password there), although reflashing is definitely easier
May 02 02:01:55 <zmatt> to reflash eMMC you make a bootable sd card and then uncomment one line in its /boot/uEnv.txt (either by mounting the card in some linux system, or by booting the beaglebone from sd card and then editing the file), and then boot the beaglebone from that
May 02 02:02:49 <zmatt> see https://beagleboard.org/getting-started
May 02 02:04:02 <zmatt> or even simpler is to flash an eMMC-flasher image to sd card to begin with.  unfortunately beagleboard.org doesn't make those easy to find, but you can find them here for example: http://strawsondesign.com/docs/librobotcontrol/flashing.html
May 02 02:33:47 <vish> @zmatt: thank you for the instructions, I think in that case my BB is already flashed as the light went through a pattern and turned off as per the webpage. But after ssh as debain I'm unable to switch to root. It says incorrect password, which is why I felt it is not flashed in the first place. Could you suggest what I could do.
May 02 02:35:13 <vagrantc> how are you trying to gain root?
May 02 02:36:51 <zmatt> "sudo -i" should just work
May 02 02:37:25 <zmatt> although generally it's better to just prefix the rare few commands that need root privileges with "sudo" instead of opening a root shell
May 02 02:58:26 <vish> I'm doing sudo su
May 02 02:58:50 <zmatt> it's a bit pointless to start a su-session within a sudo-session
May 02 02:59:25 <zmatt> just use sudo -s or sudo -i (depending on whether you just want a privileged shell within the current directory, or a clean login shell)
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