Creating a boot image using linaro-media-create

See our Boards page for information on devices linaro-media-create supports.

Download and install required packages

• linaro-media-create

  • Enable the linaro-tools repo from repo.linaro.org and apt-get install linaro-image-tools

  • or bzr branch lp:linaro-image-tools (in development, may not work)

  • Install instructions for non-ubuntu system

• Download a rootfs and a hwpack
  • Working images can be found at:

    • http://releases.linaro.org/platform/linaro-m/hwpacks/final/hwpack_linaro-omap3_20101109-1_armel_supported.tar.gz

    • http://releases.linaro.org/platform/linaro-m/headless/final/linaro-m-headless-tar-20101108-2.tar.gz

  • The daily releases of these packages (which may not work) can be found at:

    • http://snapshots.linaro.org/

• Install images to an SD/MMC card
  • Plug in your SD/MMC card and using dmesg make sure you know how the card was enumerated
  • For example, if the card was enumerated as /dev/sdb use this command to creating a booting system:
    • sudo ./linaro-media-create --mmc /dev/sdb --swap_file 200 --dev beagle --binary ./linaro-m-headless-tar-20101108-2.tar.gz --hwpack ./hwpack_linaro-omap3_20101109-1_armel_supported.tar.gz

Force Install

If Linaro Image Tools is not available for your installed version of Ubuntu, you can force install the tools like this

wget -q \
    http://repo.linaro.org/ubuntu/linaro-tools/pool/main/l/linaro-image-tools/linaro-image-tools_2015.11-1.linarojessie.1_amd64.deb \
    http://repo.linaro.org/ubuntu/linaro-tools/pool/main/l/linaro-image-tools/python-linaro-image-tools_2015.11-1.linarojessie.1_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i --force-all *.deb

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