Mpression Helio Board
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Getting Started - Mpression Helio Board
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3.
Creating MicroSD boot disk for Helio
Board
3.1
Creating a MicroSD boot disk from pre-built ALL in
One Image
The pre-built All in One Image for MicroSD boot disk for Helio board is delivered as an archive named
helio_gsrd_sdimage_[version].tar.gz that is provided from RocketBoards.org.
After extract this archive file, helio_gsrd_sdimage_[version].img is generated.
This SD card image file contains all the items that are needed to run Linux on Helio board.
Preloader
U-boot
U-boot script
Device Tree Blob
Linux Kernel
Linux Root Filesystem
To create MicroSD boot disk, you can use free tool called Win32DiskImager.exe on windows machine.
Please refer [1.3 Prerequisites] . The instructions are as follows:
1.
Insert MicroSD card to host PC
2.
Execute Win32DiskImager.exe
3.
Select all in one image for MicroSD card
4.
Click write
*Note executing Win32DiskImager.exe after your PC recognizes MicroSD card
Figure 3-1 Win32DiskImager
