Re: [Gumstix-users] Booting from SDcard (Linaro): will this erase the Overo NAND?

[Steffen H. <s_...@cs...>]

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Hi Arne,

no it will not erase the NAND flash of the overo. The line where it
is mentioned that it may take up to 20 minutes refers to the SDcard
writing process.
I'm excited to hear from you if it runs stable on your overo. At mine
it constantly has kernel panics.

Regards

Steffen

On 09/13/2012 02:42 PM, Arne Lie wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> 
> As a Gumstix newbie, I am concerned not to alter anything in such 
> manner that any mistake can render the Overo flash (NAND) in a 
> state where the Overo cannot boot properly, and such calls for 
> hard-to-find tools and knowledge in order to get it "back to
> life". I have just finished the Linaro tutorial 
> (http://wiki.gumstix.org/index.php?title=Installing_Linaro_Image) 
> and I think I have managed to format and prepare a SDcard as 
> bootable. At least, when I inspect its content on _my host 
> computer_ it says:
> 
> On fat32 boot partition:
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root     469 Sep 12 13:18 boot.ini
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root     469 Sep 12 13:18 boot.scr
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root     397 Sep 12 13:18 boot.txt
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4356064 Sep 12 13:18 uImage
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1993534 Sep 12 13:18 uInitrd
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   45428 Sep 12 13:17 MLO
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  260720 Sep 12 13:17 u-boot.img
> 
> 
> 
> On ext3 partition:
> 
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Jul 24 21:33 bin
> 
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Sep 12 13:15 boot
> 
> drwxr-xr-x   4 root root  4096 Jul 24 21:14 dev
> 
> drwxr-xr-x 117 root root  4096 Sep 12 13:28 etc
> 
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 Jul 24 21:33 home
> 
> drwxr-xr-x  17 root root  4096 Sep 12 13:14 lib
> 
> drwx------   2 root root 16384 Sep 12 13:16 lost+found
> 
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Jul 24 20:57 media
> 
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Apr 19 11:33 mnt
> 
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Jul 24 20:57 opt
> 
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Apr 19 11:33 proc
> 
> drwx------   2 root root  4096 Jul 24 21:33 root
> 
> drwxr-xr-x   7 root root  4096 Sep 12 13:15 run
> 
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Sep 12 13:16 sbin
> 
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Mar  5  2012 selinux
> 
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Jul 24 20:57 srv
> 
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Apr 14 11:29 sys
> 
> drwxrwxrwt   2 root root  4096 Sep 12 13:16 tmp
> 
> drwxr-xr-x  10 root root  4096 Jul 24 20:57 usr
> 
> drwxr-xr-x  12 root root  4096 Jul 24 21:33 var
> 
> 
> 
> Now, I just want to test this image, and I hoped that it would
> boot and use the SDcard as active file system and flash stoarge. 
> However, reading the last line of the tutorial:
> 
> "When it is finished, insert the microSD card to your Overo_. It 
> will probably take some time, as much as 20 minutes to complete_."
> 
> 
> 
> I start wondering if inserting the card into my target (Overo) and 
> powering it up will start the system to erase the Overo flash and 
> update it with the SDcard content. Can anybody enlighten me on this
> subject?
> 
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> 
> 
> Arne Lie SINTEF ICT, Dept. of Communication Systems
> 
> 
> 
> 
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