[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] added comments on how to install the system

Guillaume W. Bres guillaume.bressaix at gmail.com
Sun Aug 21 10:13:56 UTC 2016


The sudo dd part was not that trivial to me, as I was expecting
the usual ramdisk image or a rootfs.tar file. I think
board/readme.txt should mention it.

Signed-off-by: Guillaume W. Bres <guillaume.bressaix at gmail.com>
---
 board/beaglebone/readme.txt | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/board/beaglebone/readme.txt b/board/beaglebone/readme.txt
index 43ebe53..7d73e93 100644
--- a/board/beaglebone/readme.txt
+++ b/board/beaglebone/readme.txt
@@ -32,3 +32,14 @@ After building, you should get a tree like this:
   ├── u-boot.img
   ├── uEnv.txt
   └── zImage
+
+Prepare SD card
+===============
+
+The first partition, /dev/sdb1 in this example, should be a bootable FAT16 partition.
+The second partition, /dev/sdb2 in this example, should be an EXT4 partition.
+
+sudo cp output/images/{MLO,u-boot.img,zImage} /dev/sdb1
+sudo cp output/images/am335x-bone.dtb /dev/sdb1 -- for the beaglebone
+sudo cp output/images/am335x-boneblack.dtb /dev/sdb1 -- for the beaglebone black
+sudo dd if=output/images/rootfs.ext4 of=/dev/sdb2
-- 
2.1.4



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