Friends, installing Linux changes in BeagleBoard XM? Because the BB-XM have no more NAND FLASH.
Tanks Armando.
Is there a question here?
Gerald
Gerald yes, I wonder if there is a change in the installation of Linux on BeagleBoard-XM?
Tanks Armando.
2010/8/12 Gerald Coley <gerald@beagleboard.org>
The -xM will ship with the Angstrom Linux distribution on an SD card. All you have to do is turn it on and it boots to a desktop. As this is a new processor, there are several changes needed. We will have a new UBoot, MLO, and image files. The memory is 512MB and it has a USB HUB on board plus a camera interface. All of these items require new code.
Gerald
Only if your install directions required the boot variables stores in
NAND or a rootfs in NAND..
As long as you use an SD card and boot scripts by default there is
really no changes..
Regards,
This is great news. Did I read right that the team is working on using
an application that can run in Windows(and Linux) to create a boot SD
with the partitions already setup with the Beagleboard boot software
from an image, along the same lines as other mainstream Linux
distributions, so no need to calculate the partitions etc?
This is great news. Did I read right that the team is working on using
No. Gerald said the board will ship with an SD card that is already prepared.
If you boot from the card you get a desktop on the video output of the beagle.
Frans
1) Do not top post. Thanks.
2) I'm not sure what you read into Gerald's post. I don't think he
said anything about *how* that SD card was created.
rday
We will provide an image file. You can then use Diskimager from Ubuntu to then copy the image to an SD card which does all the partitioning and formatting of the SD card. And yes, that will make it bootable by the -xM. This way no matter what you do to your card, you can recover it back to the original form. And, if you keep backups of your images, you can also go back to an earlier version, the one just before it stopped working after that latest change you made. Also, with no NAND, there is nothing to get corrupted and stop the board from booting, unless of course you have bad stuff on the SD card, which you can easily repair using Diskimager. 50% of all RMAs were due to the inability of people to figure out how to recover their NAND. So, we removed that expense from Beagle RMA support by going to all SD card non-volatile memory. With Diskimager, it makes the process almost fool poof. I am sure there is someone out there running Windows 3.1 that won’t run the Dikimager utility!
In Linux there are several different script files out there that will accomplish the same thing as well.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Win32DiskImager
Gerald
Brilliant - thought I saw somebody else infer this on another thread.
Do you know who I should contact re: getting RiscOS to be dealt with
in a similar manner?
Bet you'll get a big increase in demand for the xM - now pretty easy
for non-techs to setup, many thanks!
Sorry for top post - am new to Google groups.
Brilliant - thought I saw somebody else infer this on another thread.
Do you know who I should contact re: getting RiscOS to be dealt with
in a similar manner?
Suggest you look at Documentation as they should
soon
have a RISC OS ROM image for the beagleboard XM
Many thanks.
[snip]
http://www.riscosopen.org/forum/forums/5/topics/404?page=2#posts-4217
"It may also make sense for us to start distributing the ROM as a SD
card image, the same way as the xM verification image will be
distributed."