From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix, from userid 118) id 9E9A4E009A7; Thu, 8 May 2014 04:38:12 -0700 (PDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on yocto-www.yoctoproject.org X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.3 required=5.0 tests=RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Spam-HAM-Report: * 1.3 RDNS_NONE Delivered to internal network by a host with no rDNS Received: from astoria.ccjclearline.com (unknown [64.235.106.9]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECF5FE006EF for ; Thu, 8 May 2014 04:38:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [99.240.204.5] (port=37716 helo=crashcourse.ca) by astoria.ccjclearline.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WiMeR-0007Pw-VS; Thu, 08 May 2014 07:38:12 -0400 Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 07:36:05 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost To: Diego Sueiro In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (LFD 23 2013-08-11) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - astoria.ccjclearline.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - yoctoproject.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - crashcourse.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Cc: Yocto discussion list Subject: Re: couple simple questions on building for intel galileo X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto Project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 May 2014 11:38:12 -0000 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 8 May 2014, Diego Sueiro wrote: > Robert, > Here is some instructions with some workarounds: > http://www.malinov.com/Home/sergey-s-blog/intelgalileo-buildinglinuximage > > And I think that you already saw meta-intel-iot-devkit: > http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-intel-iot-devkit/ > > As soon as I get my Galileo I'll try to put Yocto on it. > > Please, share your results with us. oh, i'm currently writing all this up and, at the risk of going *slightly* off-topic, before i set up for a yocto build for this board, i'm just trying to clarify the boot process, both without and with the SD card, so i know i'm bulding my SD card properly. first, without an SD card, the board apparently boots a minimal linux image from SPI flash. so far, so good. as for creating a bootable SD card, i see two possibilities. the first is explained at sparkfun: https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/galileo-getting-started-guide/bigger-linux-image where one can download a file called LINUX_IMAGE_FOR_SD_Intel_Galileo_v0.7.5.7z, which uncompresses into a simple directory structure that you copy to a FAT-formatted SD card. so this SD card, apparently, contains a single FAT partition. on the other hand, over at intel's developer zone: https://software.intel.com/en-us/iotdevkit one can download what is described as "SD card (200MB zipped)", which i unzipped into a file "iot-devkit-201402201605-mmcblkp0.direct", almost 8G in size, and which "fdisk" shows me has the following structure: Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x0007eabb Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System iot-devkit-201402201605-mmcblkp0.direct1 * 2048 106493 52223 83 Linux iot-devkit-201402201605-mmcblkp0.direct2 106496 14442495 7168000 83 Linux which is more what i'm used to. so am i reading both of these correctly? there are two possible formats for the bootable SD card: * simple, single FAT partition, or * more "standard" pair of bootable FAT partition, and linux ext partition. many thanks. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================