There is an updated and bugfixed version of this script now added to the OE git repository where all updates from now will be done.
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Since the instructions to format an SD card for booting with beagle/zoom2/other omap boards seems to be so complex I decided to write a script that was nice and simple to accomplish the same task.
Here is my tested and working script.
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#! /bin/sh
DRIVE=$1
dd if=/dev/zero of=$DRIVE bs=1024 count=1024
SIZE=`fdisk -l $DRIVE | grep Disk | awk '{print $5}'`
echo DISK SIZE - $SIZE bytes
CYLINDERS=`echo $SIZE/255/63/512 | bc`
echo CYLINDERS - $CYLINDERS
{
echo ,9,0x0C,*
echo ,,,-
} | sfdisk -D -H 255 -S 63 -C $CYLINDERS $DRIVE
mkfs.vfat -F 32 -n "boot" ${DRIVE}1
mke2fs -j -L "rootfs" ${DRIVE}2
To run this script you will require to run it as root. On Ubuntu or other linux with sudo setup run the script as
sudo sh mkcard.sh /dev/sdX
replacing sdX with the base device name of your SD card device.
If your running a distribution without sudo setup then become root then run the script as
su -
sh mkcard.sh /dev/sdX
Very nice script — thanks!
Comment by Cliff Brake — September 4, 2009 @ 2:35 pm
Excellent script! Verified that it works on my dev system (ubuntu) and boots my Beagle. Thanks!
Comment by Jeff — September 4, 2009 @ 6:24 pm
> Since the instructions to format an SD card
> for booting with beagle/zoom2/other omap boards
> seems to be so complex
But you could have given the proper credit…
Comment by denix — October 24, 2009 @ 5:41 am
[...] Gregory) has given us a very nice open-source present for the weekend—a script you can use to automatically format SD cards for booting the Beagle Board or any other OMAP [...]
Pingback by Script to auto-format SD cards for booting Beagle Boards « Jeff’s Open Source Resource — October 24, 2009 @ 7:09 am
@denix credit to whom? I developed the script from scratch.
Comment by XorA — October 24, 2009 @ 12:46 pm
> @denix credit to whom? I developed the script from scratch.
I’m not talking about the script, I specifically quoted the relevant part:
> Since the instructions to format an SD card
> for booting with beagle/zoom2/other omap boards
> seems to be so complex
I figured out the technique and came up with the Linux instructions – before that everybody was using Windows formatting tool from HP. See the history of http://wiki.omap.com/index.php/MMC_Boot_Format or ask jkridner, dirk, etc.
I’m usually not that ambitious, and I wouldn’t be so bitchy about the proper credit, if I didn’t see all the praises of how good the script is and complaints of how sucky the instructions are…
Comment by denix — December 9, 2009 @ 9:05 pm
Good script…almost.
Unfortunately, it fails miserably on international – or at least non-english – versions of ubuntu et al.
The call to “fdisk -l” returns a localized string, which doesn’t usually contain “DISK”.
this can easily fixed (i.e. worked around) by adding
LANG=’C’
export LANG
at the top of the script, right after the “DRIVE=$1″ definition.
Works as it should after that.
Thanks
Comment by jay_are — February 1, 2010 @ 5:51 pm
Isnt this fixed by the LC_ALL=C at top of script?
Comment by XorA — February 3, 2010 @ 3:03 pm