need technical description of booting android-gingerbread-2.3 from SD/MMC card

ashwin kumar mantoor

Other Parts Discussed in Thread: WL1271

Hello,

I compiled and build images for x-loader, u-boot and kernel also I integrated WL1271 daughter card drivers into android root filesystem.

Now I have question what exactly

$ ./mkbootscr command will do?

and to generate boot.scr, In which directory I should execute this command?

I executed that command but (mkbootscr located at /home/ashvin/Tools/mk-bootscr/mkbootscr)

ashvin@DELL-inspiron:~/Tools/mk-bootscr$ ./mkbootscr

./mkbootscr: 18: mkimage: not found

to follow these below steps

Copy all the images to one folder

  $ mkdir image_folder
  $ cp kernel/arch/arm/boot/uImage image_folder
  $ cp u-boot-omap3/u-boot.bin image_folder
  $ cp x-loader-03.00.02.07/MLO image_folder
  $ cp Tools/mk-bootscr/boot.scr image_folder
  $ cp out/target/product/omap3evm/rootfs.tar.bz2 image_folder
  $ cp media_clips image_folder

 $ cp Tools/mk-mmc/mkmmc-android.sh image_folder

$ ./mkmmc-android <sd card mounted dev folder example:/dev/sdc> MLO u-boot.bin uImage boot.scr rootfs.tar.bz2 Media_Clips

I need boot.scr....

os: ubuntu 10.04 - 64 bit

version: android-gingerbread 2.3

platform: AM/DM37x EVM

thanks&cheers

ashwin

over 14 years ago

0 Arun Joseph over 14 years ago

TI__Expert 7220 points

Hi Ashwin,

Please download Tools from http://software-dl.ti.com/dsps/dsps_public_sw/sdo_tii/TI_Android_DevKit/TI_Android_GingerBread_2_3_DevKit_1_0/exports/Tools.tar.gz

Extract Tools.

cd to mkbootscr

The utilities mkbootscr and mkImage are present over there.

Edit mkbootscr with the boot commands you would like to have. Execute the script mkbootscr to generate boot.scr.

mkbootscr internally invokes mkImage.

Regards,

Arun

0 Bin Liu over 14 years ago

TI__Guru**** 168311 points

ashwin kumar mantoor said:

Now I have question what exactly

$ ./mkbootscr command will do?

I don't have this command, but I bet it is a bash script which calls mkimage util to convert a txt file to boot.scr.

ashwin kumar mantoor said:

and to generate boot.scr, In which directory I should execute this command?

You might want to read this script; I guess it looks for a txt file in the current directory.

ashwin kumar mantoor said:

I executed that command but (mkbootscr located at /home/ashvin/Tools/mk-bootscr/mkbootscr)

ashvin@DELL-inspiron:~/Tools/mk-bootscr$ ./mkbootscr

./mkbootscr: 18: mkimage: not found

You have to install mkimage util first. howto install it depends on the Linux distro. I personally do not use Ubuntu, not sure which package has it.

0 ashwin kumar mantoor over 14 years ago in reply to Arun Joseph

Prodigy 190 points

could you explain how to edit mkbootscr? i am new to this...

0 ashwin kumar mantoor over 14 years ago in reply to Bin Liu

Prodigy 190 points

Ya ..Bin Liu, I am using ubuntu so I need to install uboot-mkimage before running ./mkbootscr.

Now its perfect..

thanks always....

0 ashwin kumar mantoor over 14 years ago in reply to ashwin kumar mantoor

Prodigy 190 points

Hi Bin,

  $ ./mkmmc-android <sd card mounted dev folder example:/dev/sdc> MLO u-boot.bin uImage boot.scr rootfs.tar.bz2 Media_Clips

if I run this command, I got this

ashvin@DELL-inspiron:~/rowboat-android/image_folder$  ls

boot.scr  mkmmc-android.sh  MLO  rootfs.tar.bz2  u-boot.bin  uImage

ashvin@DELL-inspiron:~/rowboat-android/image_folder$  ./mkmmc-android /dev/sdb MLO u-boot.bin uImage boot.scr rootfs.tar.bz2

bash: ./mkmmc-android: No such file or directory

:(

I know there is no file mkmmc-android....but confused...

I read README.txt file and I tried two ways of invoking script

1) sudo ./mkmmc-android /dev/sdb MLO u-boot.bin uImage boot.scr rootfs.tar.bz2

ashvin@DELL-inspiron:~/rowboat-android/image_folder$ sudo ./mkmmc-android /dev/sdb MLO u-boot.bin uImage boot.scr rootfs.tar.bz2

sudo: ./mkmmc-android: command not found

2) sudo ./mkmmc-android.sh /dev/sdb

ashvin@DELL-inspiron:~/rowboat-android/image_folder$ ./mkmmc-android.sh /dev/sdb

bash: ./mkmmc-android.sh: /bin/bash^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

I run this command where I stored all the image files image_folder.

0 Satish Patel over 14 years ago in reply to ashwin kumar mantoor

TI__Expert 4390 points

Hi Ashwin,

I think there is a confusion over here...

1. mkmmc-android.sh is not a standard command. It is a script file which will prepared sd card for android filesystem

2. One can find this script under Tools/ directory.

mkmmc-android Usage:

mkmmc-android.sh <device> <MLO> <u-boot.bin> <uImage> <boot.scr> <rootfs tar.bz2 > <Optional Media_Clips>

example:

sudo <Tools>/mkmmc-android.sh /dev/sdc MLO u-boot.bin uImage boot.scr rootfs.tar.bz2

I hope this help you.

BR,

satish

0 nan zhao over 14 years ago in reply to Satish Patel

Intellectual 265 points

I found this error, but no one answered me, please check it out.

http://e2e.ti.com/support/embedded/f/509/t/112282.aspx

0 ashwin kumar mantoor over 14 years ago in reply to Satish Patel

Prodigy 190 points

yes satish, I know that is not a standard command, So I downloaded Tools.tar.gz from devkit and extracted.from that folder I copied mkmmc-android.sh script file to the folder where I moved all image files MLO,u-boot.bin,uImage,boot.scr and rootfs.tar.bz2. there I run the script file with SD card location and all files.

ashvin@DELL-inspiron:~/rowboat-android/image_folder$ sudo /home/ashvin/Tools/mk-mmc/mkmmc-android.sh /dev/sdb MLO u-boot.bin uImage boot.scr rootfs.tar.bz2

sudo: unable to execute /home/ashvin/Tools/mk-mmc/mkmmc-android.sh: No such file or directory

In my friend system I can able to run the script but not in my system.

0 Myosotis over 13 years ago in reply to ashwin kumar mantoor

Intellectual 510 points

To avoid error "mkmmc-android.sh: command not found" you should type in terminal

sudo chmod +x mkmmc-android.sh

After typing this command you can execute script

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