Is it supposed to reimage the BBB every time it boots from a memory

Is it supposed to reimage the BBB every time it boots from a memory card? I noticed two tar commands in top every time I reboot.

333 332 root S 2152 0% 56% tar zxf Angstrom-Cloud9-IDE-GNOME-eglibc-ipk-v2012.12-beaglebone.rootfs.tar.gz -C /media/2
332 153 root D 2152 0% 14% tar zxf Angstrom-Cloud9-IDE-GNOME-eglibc-ipk-v2012.12-beaglebone.rootfs.tar.gz -C /media/2

I kill the processes, but it still ends up leaving all my leds on. I can’t see if my BBB has frozen up, which it does pretty frequently, when I try to install packages.

Is there any way to reset the leds?

(I was finally able to get python installed on my 2013.06.06.img. I just kill the two tar processes, and run “opkg update && opkg install python-distutils”)

Yes, if you boot from the SD card again it will reflash.

Is there a way to reset the leds?

When using the flasher image completes and LEDs light, remove power, microSD card and reboot from eMMC. That is what the flasher image is for.

If you want to run off of microSD, just use the non-flasher image.

I was just about to ask that. Thanks. :slight_smile: