I installed Ubuntu 14 in Late 2014-2015 and everything was okay.
I am more interested in the Epiphany processor than any other part of the Parallella. So I was glad when it showed on Youtube how to install the software. The video was too small on the Youtube font, but I think all one must do is give a few simple commands and then one can have that software installed.
Then I tried last November to install the software for the epiphany processor and suddenly everything went wrong.
In one card it refused my password and in another I was able to log on (it accepted my password), but after a period of less than a minute the screen froze.
Now know that there are ways to get around both situations, but I just decided to re-image the cards and start from scratch.
I know it says that when you use the MS Windows (I have version 7) and when I use Win32 disk Imager to image the ubuntu*.img file on to the sd card that if successful you should not be able to see the files.
You would also not be able to see them if the files (Ubuntu image and the rest) were never transferred to the sd card in the first place.
I have two sd cards with the previous version of Ubuntu installed which as I said was installed in late 2014 and early 2015. At that time (and with an earlier version of Ubuntu) there were several smaller files that had to be put on the sd card separately. There were three and I put each one on after the other, thenI imaged the sd cards with Win32 disk imager.
Taking the two new cards with the Ubuntu image installed on (and I assume all supporting files also installed).
As I said, I created the sd cards I craated with my Windows 7 laptop using Win32 imager. The software said the image was completed successfully. It also said that one would not be able to see the files once they were on since this is a Windows system and we are trying to view Linux files. That made sense. There could be another we reason that we cannot see Linux files on the Windows 7 laptop. They were not copied or imaged.
I tried to boot up my Parallella last night with the two reimaged, sd cards. I got nothing. The screen kept saying "check cable signal" or the screen alternated from analog to hdmi. I have a Samsung monitor.
It seems a good first step is to check the newly imaged cards to see if all the required files are on each sd card. That includes the three file that I mentioned above. Can I do this with an Ubuntu Live Cd? I need to eliminate any issues with the cards.
Any help appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Respectfully,
Lou_ReedStatistics: Posted by Lou_Reed — Mon Feb 22, 2016 8:47 pm
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