[meta-freescale] Freescale imx beta/release sd burning questions

[Gary Thomas]

On 2014-05-22 09:33, tom campbell wrote:
> List:
>
> I've built the Freescale imx6 beta successfully from:
>       fsl-yocto-3.10.17-1.0.0-beta.tar.gz
>       L3.10.17_1.0.0_beta_131223_images_MX6.tar.gz
> cd fsl-community-bsp-platform &&\
>      MACHINE=imx6slevk source setup-environment build-evk &&\
>      bitbake core-image-minimal
>
>
> I have a question about sd card partitioning.  The instructions in Freescale Yocto user guide 4.1 say:
>      sudo dd if=<image name>.sdcard of=/dev/sd<partition>
>      sudo dd if=<image name>.sdcard of=/dev/sd<partition bs=1M && sync
>
> No where can I find the partitioning requirements for the sd card.
> How is the SD card to be partitioned?
> Don't really understand the two commands above.  Unless <partition> is different, only difference is block size of writes
> Can someone point me to the partitioning requirements?

You don't need to partition the SD card - the image is complete,
with it's own partitioning built in.  Those directions are a bit
misleading as it should read of=/dev/sdX, where sdX is the name
of your SD device; you should never use a partition device here,
rather the entire device.

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