logIt Log Around The Clock

Posts Tagged ‘rootfs’

Duplicate/Restore ARM Linux Image to MMC/SD Card (BeagleBoard and DevKit ARM)

In ARM Linux on 25 March 2013 with no comments 2092 views

By booting from MMC/SD card, you can bring up your BeagleBoard-xM or DevKit8500D (both are ARMv7). It is the only way for the xM (microSD card to be exact), while with DevKit, you have the option to flash it to the board for NAND-boot once you’re sure that it works with SD card. eLinux wiki [...]

Ubuntu on Beagleboard xM with Easycap Video Capture (Compiling Driver)

In ARM Linux, Ubuntu on 31 December 2011 with no comments 1756 views

Attempt to run Ubuntu in BeagleBoard xM rev C board has taken me to try various options of kernel and release. The goal was to have both Ubuntu and widely-available Easycap as video input via the USB of this compact TI OMAP board. Porting Ubuntu would spare us some flexibility to try different alternatives of [...]

Ubuntu ARM on QEMU Processor Emulator

In ARM Linux, Ubuntu on 27 November 2011 with no comments 1033 views

There are times when you need to try things on virtualized environment before hand e.g. 1) checking application functionality or 2) actual device shipment is still on its long way. Those were also my cases with ARM Linux. Unlike virtualization in production environment however, putting software to emulate CPU architecture will slow down the guest [...]

Running Ubuntu on DevKit8500D (Natty Kernel and Lucid RootFS)

In ARM Linux, Ubuntu on 28 October 2011 with no comments 976 views

BeagleBoard xM that comes with Texas Instruments’ DM3730 DaVinci™ processor has its Chinese sister from Embest, the DevKit8500D evaluation kit. This similarity and eLinux wiki (showing working previous DevKit8000) have made me confident that Ubuntu would also port to this board with no hassle. As always, that wasn’t the story. I tried preinstalled images available [...]