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)
- Download a rootfs and a hwpack
- Working images can be found at:
- The daily releases of these packages (which may not work) can be found at:
- 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
Resources/HowTo/L-M-C (last modified 2016-01-19 08:19:07)