For those bound on risk I wonder if the removed USB port is possible to be soldered back to copy over these files. Probably the biggest risk would be warranty wise?
Should be a lot safer just to buy another BBB & copy the image over.
huh? it's simple enough using putty, why would we need a bbb?... lol
the live part of his code is stored in RAM anyway... right?
a cold restart works fine.... at least it did for my 3 sats...
the location of the .factory file was mentioned early on... surely folks made a backup of it?