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Questions & Answers
How to install and boot firmware from eMMC memory?
This same image (file ``sdcard.img``) created by the Buildroot (see Quick start) can be installed on liteSOM eMMC memory.
Below you can find list of steps required it install and boot liteSOM from eMMC memory:
- build firmware as described on Quick start.
- configure liteboard boot switches to “Boot from SD card” mode (see Liteboard boot switches configuration),
- boot liteboard with firmware compiled in the first step,
- copy to USB stick
sdcard.img
file generated in the first step, - insert USB stick to the liteboard USB A socket,
- mount USB stick,
- copy
sdcard.img
file to eMMC memory (/dev/mmcblk1
), - configure liteboard boot switches to “Boot from eMMC memory” mode (see Liteboard boot switches configuration),
Method 1
Insert SD cart to PC and check last lines from dmesg
command output. Name assigned to the detected SD card will be presented as in the following example.