{"id":6755,"date":"2022-01-25T04:14:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T04:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastbitlab.com\/?p=6755"},"modified":"2023-09-09T16:04:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T10:34:16","slug":"preparing-micro-sd-card-for-sd-boot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fastbitlab.com\/blog\/preparing-micro-sd-card-for-sd-boot\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux Device Driver Programming Lecture 7- Preparing Micro SD card for SD boot"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Preparing Micro SD card for SD boot<\/b><\/span><\/h1>\n
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In this session, let’s prepare a Micro SD card for SD boot<\/strong><\/span>. First of all, we have to do Micro SD card preparation.<\/span><\/p>\n

These are the steps you have to follow,<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Use 8\/16\/32 GB Micro SD card.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Connect the Micro SD card to the PC using a card reader.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Launch the GParted application.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Make two partitions(fat16 and ext4).<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Copy boot images on fat16 partition(BOOT partition).<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Copy Debian root file system on ext4 partition.<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Configure the boot,lba flags on the boot partition.<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. Unmount and remove the Micro SD card from the PC.<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. Insert the Micro SD card into the BBB Micro SD card slot.<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. Boot from SD card interface (mmc0 interface).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I will guide you step by step.<\/span><\/p>\n

    For this exercise, you should have a Micro SD card of 8 or 16 or 32GB (Figure 1), and you need a card reader (Figure 2).<\/span><\/p>\n