Problems preparing SD card to boot android on beagle board XM

Hi,

You appear to be pointing mkmmc-android to a partition(sdd1) rather than the sdcard device (sdd). The script partitions the card and then copies the data.

Try this:

mkmmc-andriod.sh /dev/sdd beagleboard/MLO beagleboard/u-boot.bin beagleboard/uImage beagleboard/boot.scr /home/tw2/lab1/android/TI_Android_Eclair_DevKit-V1/Filesystem/rootfs_am37x.tar.bz2

HTH,

Vishveshwar

Hi,

I have checked the name of the card. I have seen it’s device name as /dev/sdd and /dev/sdd1. I have tried the script both ways.

Is the version of Linux and issue?

Using Red hat 2.6.9-89.29 64 bit.

Am I using the correct file system, rootfs_am37x.tar.bz2 for the beagleboard XM ? The processor is DM3730CBP.

Had some here at work try to format the sd card manually using fdisk with the following steps. This created the two partitions and put the files on each partition but the system would not boot?

Thanks,

Lou

Umount

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdd bs=1024 count=1024

Command (m for help): ?

?: unknown command

Command action

   a   toggle a bootable flag

   b   edit bsd disklabel

   c   toggle the dos compatibility flag

   d   delete a partition

   l   list known partition types

   m   print this menu

   n   add a new partition

   o   create a new empty DOS partition table

   p   print the partition table

   q   quit without saving changes

   s   create a new empty Sun disklabel

   t   change a partition's system id

   u   change display/entry units

   v   verify the partition table

   w   write table to disk and exit

   x   extra functionality (experts only)

Command (m for help): m

Command action

   a   toggle a bootable flag

   b   edit bsd disklabel

   c   toggle the dos compatibility flag

   d   delete a partition

   l   list known partition types

   m   print this menu

   n   add a new partition

   o   create a new empty DOS partition table

   p   print the partition table

   q   quit without saving changes

   s   create a new empty Sun disklabel

   t   change a partition's system id

   u   change display/entry units

   v   verify the partition table

   w   write table to disk and exit

   x   extra functionality (experts only)

Command (m for help): n

Command action

   e   extended

   p   primary partition (1-4)

p

Partition number (1-4): 1

First cylinder (1-1023, default 1):   

Using default value 1

Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-1023, default 1023): 100  

Command (m for help): n

Command action

   e   extended

   p   primary partition (1-4)

p

Partition number (1-4): 2

First cylinder (101-1023, default 101):

Using default value 101

Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (101-1023, default 1023):

Using default value 1023

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sdd: 3965 MB, 3965190144 bytes

122 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1023 cylinders Units = cylinders of 7564 * 512 =

3872768 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System

/dev/sdd1               1         100      378169   83  Linux

/dev/sdd2             101        1023     3490786   83  Linux

Command (m for help): m

Command action

   a   toggle a bootable flag

   b   edit bsd disklabel

   c   toggle the dos compatibility flag

   d   delete a partition

   l   list known partition types

   m   print this menu

   n   add a new partition

   o   create a new empty DOS partition table

   p   print the partition table

   q   quit without saving changes

   s   create a new empty Sun disklabel

   t   change a partition's system id

   u   change display/entry units

   v   verify the partition table

   w   write table to disk and exit

   x   extra functionality (experts only)

Command (m for help): w

The partition table has been altered!

Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.

Syncing disks.

[root@tw4 /]#

=============

[root@tw4 /]# mkfs.vfat -F 32 -n boot /dev/sdd1 mkfs.vfat 2.8 (28 Feb 2001)

[root@tw4 /]# mkfs.ext3 -L rootfs /dev/sdd2 mke2fs 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)

Filesystem label=rootfs OS type: Linux Block size=4096 (log=2) Fragment

size=4096 (log=2)

437184 inodes, 872696 blocks

43634 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=0 Maximum

filesystem blocks=897581056

27 block groups

32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group

16192 inodes per group

Superblock backups stored on blocks:

        32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200

Writing inode tables: done                          

Creating journal (8192 blocks): done

Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

This filesystem will be automatically checked every 24 mounts or 180 days,

whichever comes first.  Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.

mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt

cp beagleboard/MLO /mnt/MLO

cp beagleboard/u-boot.bin /mnt/u-boot.bin

cp beagleboard/uImage /mnt/uImage

cp beagleboard/boot.scr /mnt/boot.scr

umount /dev/sdd1 /mnt

mount /dev/sdd2 /mnt

tar jxvf  /home/tw2/lab1/android/TI_Android_Eclair_DevKit-V1/Filesystem/rootfs_am37x.tar.bz2 -C /mnt &> /dev/null

chmod 755 /mnt

umount /dev/sdd2 /mnt

Hi,

I have checked the name of the card. I have seen it’s device name as /dev/sdd and /dev/sdd1. I have tried the script both ways.

Is the version of Linux and issue?

Using Red hat 2.6.9-89.29 64 bit.

Am I using the correct file system, rootfs_am37x.tar.bz2 for the beagleboard XM ? The processor is DM3730CBP.

Had some here at work try to format the sd card manually using fdisk with the following steps. This created the two partitions and put the files on each partition but the system would not boot?

Thanks,

Lou

Umount

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdd bs=1024 count=1024

Command (m for help): ?

?: unknown command

Command action

   a   toggle a bootable flag

   b   edit bsd disklabel

   c   toggle the dos compatibility flag

   d   delete a partition

   l   list known partition types

   m   print this menu

   n   add a new partition

   o   create a new empty DOS partition table

   p   print the partition table

   q   quit without saving changes

   s   create a new empty Sun disklabel

   t   change a partition's system id

   u   change display/entry units

   v   verify the partition table

   w   write table to disk and exit

   x   extra functionality (experts only)

Command (m for help): m

Command action

   a   toggle a bootable flag

   b   edit bsd disklabel

   c   toggle the dos compatibility flag

   d   delete a partition

   l   list known partition types

   m   print this menu

   n   add a new partition

   o   create a new empty DOS partition table

   p   print the partition table

   q   quit without saving changes

   s   create a new empty Sun disklabel

   t   change a partition's system id

   u   change display/entry units

   v   verify the partition table

   w   write table to disk and exit

   x   extra functionality (experts only)

Command (m for help): n

Command action

   e   extended

   p   primary partition (1-4)

p

Partition number (1-4): 1

First cylinder (1-1023, default 1):   

Using default value 1

Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-1023, default 1023): 100  

Command (m for help): n

Command action

   e   extended

   p   primary partition (1-4)

p

Partition number (1-4): 2

First cylinder (101-1023, default 101):

Using default value 101

Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (101-1023, default 1023):

Using default value 1023

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sdd: 3965 MB, 3965190144 bytes

122 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1023 cylinders Units = cylinders of 7564 * 512 =

3872768 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System

/dev/sdd1               1         100      378169   83  Linux

/dev/sdd2             101        1023     3490786   83  Linux

Command (m for help): m

Command action

   a   toggle a bootable flag

   b   edit bsd disklabel

   c   toggle the dos compatibility flag

   d   delete a partition

   l   list known partition types

   m   print this menu

   n   add a new partition

   o   create a new empty DOS partition table

   p   print the partition table

   q   quit without saving changes

   s   create a new empty Sun disklabel

   t   change a partition's system id

   u   change display/entry units

   v   verify the partition table

   w   write table to disk and exit

   x   extra functionality (experts only)

Command (m for help): w

The partition table has been altered!

Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.

Syncing disks.

[root@tw4 /]#

=============

[root@tw4 /]# mkfs.vfat -F 32 -n boot /dev/sdd1 mkfs.vfat 2.8 (28 Feb 2001)

[root@tw4 /]# mkfs.ext3 -L rootfs /dev/sdd2 mke2fs 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)

Filesystem label=rootfs OS type: Linux Block size=4096 (log=2) Fragment

size=4096 (log=2)

437184 inodes, 872696 blocks

43634 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=0 Maximum

filesystem blocks=897581056

27 block groups

32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group

16192 inodes per group

Superblock backups stored on blocks:

        32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200

Writing inode tables: done                          

Creating journal (8192 blocks): done

Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

This filesystem will be automatically checked every 24 mounts or 180 days,

whichever comes first.  Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.

mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt

cp beagleboard/MLO /mnt/MLO

cp beagleboard/u-boot.bin /mnt/u-boot.bin

cp beagleboard/uImage /mnt/uImage

cp beagleboard/boot.scr /mnt/boot.scr

umount /dev/sdd1 /mnt

mount /dev/sdd2 /mnt

tar jxvf  /home/tw2/lab1/android/TI_Android_Eclair_DevKit-V1/Filesystem/rootfs_am37x.tar.bz2 -C /mnt &> /dev/null

chmod 755 /mnt

umount /dev/sdd2 /mnt

You have replied in another thread that the problem is solved.

http://e2e.ti.com/support/embedded/f/509/t/72783.aspx

If that is indeed the case, please close this thread.