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iW-RainboW-G15D Linux User Manual
3.2
Manual SD Card Programming
This section explains the step by step procedure to flash the binaries into micro SD card manually.
3.2.1
Requirements
To program the binaries in SD card for iW-RainboW-G15M-Q7 platform, following Items are required:
Card reader for manual binary programming
Host PC (Linux) for manual binary programming
3.2.2
SD Card Partition
This chapter describes the steps to partition an SD/MMC card to program the binaries and boot the iW-RainboW-
G15M-Q7 platform. Refer this section only if a New Micro SD card or SD/MMC card is used.
Insert SD card using SD card reader to the PC. Execute mount command to see the attached nodes and
mount points.
$mount
SD card may attach to the dev nodes either sdb/sdc/sdd/sde. Assume the SD card is attached to /dev/sdb
node.
Unmount if /dev/sdb is mounted in any mount point. SD card should not be mounted while partitioning.
$umount /dev/sdb
Start partitioning using fdisk command.
$sudo fdisk /dev/sdb
After running fdisk, it will change shell prompt to
Command (m for help):
Press 'p' to view already existing partitions. Delete all existing partitions using command ’d’. Enter individual
partitions like 1, 2, 3, etc until all the partitions are deleted. Once all the partitions are deleted, the below
message gets displayed.
Command (m for help): d
No partition is defined yet!
Press 'n' to create new partition (going to create first partition).
Command (m for help): n
Command action
e extended
p primary partition (1-4)