Difference between revisions of "Rock/sd lubuntu"

Revision as of 02:00, 3 May 2014

How to set up booting from an SD Card

Get a parameter file from http://dl.radxa.com/rock/images/ubuntu/ change root command entry of parameter file to "root=/dev/mmcblk0p1" upload it with RKAndroidTool from here. to the RADXA It should now boot from SD Card

Example parameter file:

FIRMWARE_VER:4.2.2
MACHINE_MODEL:radxa_rock
MACHINE_ID:007
MANUFACTURER:RADXA
MAGIC: 0x5041524B
ATAG: 0x60000800
MACHINE: 3066
CHECK_MASK: 0x80
KERNEL_IMG: 0x60408000
#RECOVER_KEY: 1,1,0,20,0
CMDLINE:console=ttyFIQ0,115200 console=tty0 root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rw rootfstype=ext4 mac_addr=12:21:34:43:56:65 init=/sbin/init initrd=0x62000000,0x00800000 mtdparts=rk29xxnand:0x00008000@0x00002000(boot),-@0x0000A000(linuxroot)

Create Lubuntu SD Card

Get a rootfs-desktop.img file from http://dl.radxa.com/rock/images/ubuntu/partitions/
Unzip it
Finally copy rootfs image to sd card.

$ sudo dd if=mydir/rootfs-desktop.img of=/dev/mmcblk0p1
$ sync

Resize SD Card

$ sudo resize2fs -p /dev/mmcblk0p1

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 === Create Lubuntu SD Card ===
-Get a rootfs-desktop.img file from http://dl.radxa.com/rock/images/ubuntu/
+* Get a rootfs-desktop.img file from http://dl.radxa.com/rock/images/ubuntu/partitions/
-Create an ext4 partition on sd card you want to boot from
+* Unzip it
-<PRE>
+* Finally copy rootfs image to sd card.
-# TODO bash commands
-</PRE>
+ $ sudo dd if=mydir/rootfs-desktop.img of=/dev/mmcblk0p1
-Finally copy root-fs.img to sd card.
+ $ sync
-<PRE>
-$ sudo dd if=mydir/rootfs-desktop.img of=/dev/mmcblk0p1
-$ sync
-</PRE>
 === Resize SD Card ===