Beaglebone Black problem

Troubleshooting
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Hi,

I was trying to transform my Beaglebone Black to DietPI through the built script. Everything was normal on the setup and after the reboot, I have the “black screen”. Is this related to the problem that was before with RPI or not supported at all due to the TI cpu?

Regards. :slight_smile:

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the problem with RPi was related to a Kernel version that had challenges. But it was dedicated to RPI only. Just out of curiosity, did you tried connecting via SSH (even if it is showing a black screen)?

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Yes I have tried via SSH it is not working.

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There was an image available in past but I guess support has been dropped as there was no real usage. I will link the old GitHub issue. Last comment is from last year stating about network problems https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi/issues/931

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Thank you for the link. I see that the connman is removed, correct that is why i have checked the config on

/etc/network/interfaces

but still nothing. Maybe something is broken.

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pls stick to GitHub on this issue

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Yes of course thank you.

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Similar issue with my beaglebones black and Dietpi except it seems to die at the connman removal portion of the conversion.
About a year ago I had made a couple BB Blacks into Pi-holes. I used buster images put into eMMC and then did conversion to Dietpi without issues. Well now I am trying to redo them cause no one remembers the login passwords… Yeah,defecation occurs. Anyway, I tried converting from a clean install of buster, and it failed at the connman removal. So I redid a clean install of buster, upgraded it to bullseye,and then did the conversion to Dietpi, some thing.
Specifically it stops at the " Removing connman (1.36_2.2)"

So is it a bullseye issue ? There is no bullseye image for the BB Black… So kinda lost here since it did work before without the added step of an upgrade to the conversion.

Using a debian flasher image from beagleboard.org website.

Thanks for any arrows in the right direction.

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use debian 11.2 to solve this

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This is as expected as connman is managing network connections DietPi Image for Beagle Bone Black · Issue #931 · MichaIng/DietPi · GitHub

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Thanks for the input, I figured it was likely something to do with the connection loss during the upgrade.

The official site does not have a buster release for the BB Black yet… But I was able to find an unofficial release 11.3 and they no longer use connman.
After installing it to the SD and getting a good boot, I moved it to the eMMC and the ran the Dietpi conversion.
This time, it completed!
I did the install for Dietpi dashboard and pi-hole and It was using 80%-ish of the 4GB eMMC, so I ran the Dietpi cleaner and took off 80MB. I then changed the swap file from 1.5GB to 479MB and now I have a surplus of space available. Since this is going to be a dedicated pi-hole and nothing else, the new swap should be sufficient.

Now to replicate/repeat the entire process for the second one. Thanks for the added input, I think I’m good moving forward now. Love the Dietpi OS.

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