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    How to create a Boot SD Card for the BeagleBone black


    Otto Linnemann edited this page on 23 Jan 2016 3 revisions

    The most straight forward way of applying the Linux image to the BeagleBone is by booting the Pages 4
    system up from an external SD card. Since the BeagleBone black seems to be kind of a reference
    platform for the YoctoProject, it provides a good instruction how to flash the image. The following Home
    instruction is widely taken from this: How to boot the BeagleBone
    black from an SD Card

    How to create a Boot SD Card


    Table of Contents for the BeagleBone black

    How to flash the BeagleBone's


    Preconditions
    internal EMMC Flash
    Partition and Format the SD Card
    Identify SD Device File
    Clone this wiki locally
    Setup Partitions on SD Card
    https://github.com/linneman/planck.wiki.gi
    Format the Partitions
    Create Mount Point Directories
    Mount Partitions on SD Card
    Install the Image Data
    Boot Loaders
    Root File System
    Unmount the SD Card

    Preconditions

    You need a Linux host PC, a micro SD card and USB SD card reader in order to prepare the
    image. Most of the following commands require root priviledges so it is recommended to execute
    them as user root.

    Partition and Format the SD Card

    These steps need to be done only once. The SD card needs to provide two primary partitions. The
    first one carries the bootloader, the second one the Linux kernel and the user land file system.

    Identify SD Device File


    Before you insert the card reader equipped with the SD card where the new image is going to be
    installed, open up a shell on the Linux host and enter

    tail -f /var/log/kern.log

    Insert the card reader to the Linux host and observe the log output which shall be similar to this:

    kernel: sd 35:0:0:0: [sdb] 61497344 512-byte logical blocks: (31.4 GB/29.3 GiB)
    kernel: sd 35:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
    ...
    kernel: sdb: sdb1 sdb2

    That means the SD card can be accessed under /dev/sdb. In the example above the card has
    been already partitioned which is the reason why sdb1 and sdb2 are present as well. Nevertheless

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    the following two steps taken from http://www.armhf.com/boards/beaglebone-black/bbb-sd-install/


    explain this.

    Setup Partitions on SD Card


    Start the fdisk console application with the following command:

    fdisk /dev/sdX

    where /dev/sdX denotes the device file as indicated under point 1. Now create the a new partition
    table by following these steps:

    1. Initialize a new partition table by selecting o, then verify the partition table is empty by
    selecting p.
    2. Create a boot partition by selecting n for new, then p for primary, and 1 to specify the first
    partition. Press enter to accept the default first sector and specify +72261K for specifying the
    size in kilobytes.
    3. Change the partition type to FAT16 by selecting t for type and c for W95 FAT32 (LBA).
    4. Set the partition bootable by selecting a then 1.
    5. Next, create the data partition for the root filesystem by selecting n for new, then p for
    primary, and 2 to specify the second partition. Accept the default values for the first and last
    sectors by pressing enter twice.
    6. Press p to print the partition table. It should look similar to the one below.
    7. Finally, commit the changes by selecting w to write the partition table and exit fdisk.

    Disk /dev/sdb: 7948 MB, 7948206080 bytes


    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 966 cylinders, total 15523840 sectors
    Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
    Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
    I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
    Disk identifier: 0xafb3f87b
    .
    Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
    /dev/sdb1 * 2048 146569 72261 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
    /dev/sdb2 146570 15759359 7806395 83 Linux

    Format the Partitions


    Before formatting unplug and plug again the SD card respectively the USB card reader to allow the
    driver stack to correctly discover the filesystem partitions. Check that the SD card does still use the
    same device files as in the given example /dev/sdb by watching the output of tail -f /var/log
    /messages.Then enter the following commands to create the required filesystems:

    mkfs.vfat -F 16 -n "boot" /dev/sdb1


    mke2fs -j -L "root" /dev/sdb2

    Create Mount Point Directories


    In order to mount the filesystems of newly created partitions on the SD card to the filesystem on
    the Linux host you need to create two mount point directories. We recommend to put them under
    the directory mount with the following commands:

    mkdir /mnt/sd1
    mkdir /mnt/sd2

    Mount Partitions on SD Card

    Whenever you insert the SD card or after having successfully executed the steps above you have
    to mount the directories on the SD card by the following commands:

    mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sd1

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    mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt/sd2

    In case the partitions on the SD cards contain already some data you might want to remove it first
    before actually applying a new or updated image:

    rm -rf /mnt/sd1/*
    rm -rf /mnt/sd2/*

    IN the majority of the cases you will exclusively change the Linux kernel or the content on the
    Linux file system image. In this case you can keep the first parition as it is and only update the
    content of the second one.

    Install the Image Data

    The following instructions assume that your SD card partitions can be accessed under /dev/sdb1
    and /dev/sdb2 as in the example above. It is possible that the SD card uses a different device file
    on your system which in this case must be used instead. Refer to the first step for further details.

    After successfull build all image data can be found under

    ##project_root_folder##/build/tmp-eglibc/deploy/images/

    Boot Loaders
    Install the boot loaders:

    cp MLO-beaglebone /mnt/sd1/MLO
    cp u-boot-beaglebone.img /mnt/sd1/u-boot.img

    Root File System


    Install the root filesystem:

    tar x -C /mnt/sd2 -f $IMAGE_TYPE-beaglebone.tar.gz

    where $IMAGE_TYPE currently denotes to ltenad2 for the standard CDC-RNDIS configuration
    used with the manufactures images for BeagleBone black or ltenad2-cdc-ncm for the more
    efficient and modified CDC-NCM drivers as used in connectivity modules based on MDM9640.

    Unmount the SD Card

    Whenever you remove the SD card from the host PC you have to unmount its partitions with the
    following commands:

    umount /mnt/sd1
    umount /mnt/sd2

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