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interesting stuff about arm devices (Utilite, SolidRun, Odroid)
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.img for cubox-i #4

Closed kennethlimcp closed 9 years ago

kennethlimcp commented 9 years ago

Hey @umiddelb, i downloaded the image from your website for Cubox-i (actually running on hummingboard) but the .bz2 file gave me a .tar which uncompressed to the files for the SD.

Is that the right way to install by copying the files over to the SD? How do we expand and use the entire diskspace then? Thanks!

umiddelb commented 9 years ago

Hi @kennethlimcp,

the tar archive contains the contents of the root filesystem. So you create the filesystem by yourself (no need to expand it afterwards) and extract the tar archive on the newly created filesystem.

sudo mkfs.ext4 -O ^has_journal -b 4096 -L rootfs /dev/sdb1
sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
curl -sSL https://www.dropbox.com/sh/rfxvv8ayozeitlu/AABi5TPly63oqg-PLXO8p_4Ha/trusty.tar.bz2?dl=0 | sudo tar --numeric-owner -xpjf - -C /mnt

Please remember to install the u-boot bootloader as well, if you haven't used the uSD with the CuBox-i before, see here.

sudo dd if=/mnt/boot/SPL of=/dev/sdb bs=1K seek=1
sudo dd if=/mnt/boot/u-boot.img of=/dev/sdb bs=1K seek=42
kennethlimcp commented 9 years ago

Ok thanks!

umiddelb commented 9 years ago

What kind of Hummingboard do you have? The tar archive contains two dtb files for the Hummingboard, but I'm not sure if the bootloader for the CuBox-i does also fit the Hummingboard. Can you see some bootloader messages when the Hummingboard start up?

kennethlimcp commented 9 years ago

I have a i1 and i2eX. Once i get it on the sd card i will test it out and let you know ;)