From: Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
To: meta-freescale@yoctoproject.org
Subject: Re: Freescale imx beta/release sd burning questions
Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 09:45:52 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <537E1BB0.9080006@mlbassoc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <537E18B6.6040905@DinkumSoftware.com>
On 2014-05-22 09:33, tom campbell wrote:
> List:
>
> I've built the Freescale imx6 beta successfully from:
> fsl-yocto-3.10.17-1.0.0-beta.tar.gz
> L3.10.17_1.0.0_beta_131223_images_MX6.tar.gz
> cd fsl-community-bsp-platform &&\
> MACHINE=imx6slevk source setup-environment build-evk &&\
> bitbake core-image-minimal
>
>
> I have a question about sd card partitioning. The instructions in Freescale Yocto user guide 4.1 say:
> sudo dd if=<image name>.sdcard of=/dev/sd<partition>
> sudo dd if=<image name>.sdcard of=/dev/sd<partition bs=1M && sync
>
> No where can I find the partitioning requirements for the sd card.
> How is the SD card to be partitioned?
> Don't really understand the two commands above. Unless <partition> is different, only difference is block size of writes
> Can someone point me to the partitioning requirements?
You don't need to partition the SD card - the image is complete,
with it's own partitioning built in. Those directions are a bit
misleading as it should read of=/dev/sdX, where sdX is the name
of your SD device; you should never use a partition device here,
rather the entire device.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-22 15:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-22 15:33 Freescale imx beta/release sd burning questions tom campbell
2014-05-22 15:45 ` Gary Thomas [this message]
2014-05-22 15:51 ` David Sowa
2014-05-22 16:31 ` tom campbell
2014-05-24 0:00 ` Matthew Reynolds
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