Oh ok let me try switching the pin back and try rebooting again! Thanks!!
This worked, now the green light turns to yellow and I am able to access the device via ssh. Thanks so much for helping me out at each step!
One another doubt: the FW I updated above does not have many apps (or even Python 2.7) which was present earlier (I think that was SPK with Octave). Can I re-update firmware with Octave to get that using the same way? Or will that cause an issue?
you should be able to use the old way to upgrade FW (scp +fwupdate command)
Ok sure. Thanks!! Trying that!