CM-FX6: Linux: Automatic Installation
Contents
Introduction
This article provides an installation guide for Linux kernel and Debian root file system on the CompuLab CM-FX6 System-on-Module / Computer-on-Module SSD internal storage device.
Preparation steps
- Obtain a PC workstation with a serial communication port.
- Download the Linux package for CM-FX6 from CompuLab website. Unzip the package to a directory on your host workstation.
- All image files mentioned below can be found in the images subdirectory.
- Connect the host PC to the SB-FX6 base-board (connector P8) via the serial cable supplied with the evaluation kit.
- Continue to the Preparing installation media subsection.
Preparing installation media
- Obtain an MMC/SD card. Any commercially available MMC/SD card of 1GB (or larger) may be used.
- Create a first partition on it. The partition can be formatted either ext2/3/4 or FAT file system.
- Copy all files found in the directory images from the Linux package for CM-FX6 to the first partition on the installation media (MMC/SD card).
- Continue to the Automatic Installation Procedure section.
Automatic Installation Procedure
- Start terminal emulation software on your PC with the following serial port settings:
Baud Rate Data Bits Stop Bits Parity Flow Control 115200 8 1 none none
- Plug the installation media (MMC/SD card) to the SD socket (P6) on the SB-FX6
- Turn on the CM-FX6 evaluation system.
- The system will boot from the SD card and start the automatic installation procedure.
Kernel release : Linux Linux 4.1.15-cm-fx6-8.0 Press any key to cancel installation 5
The Automatic Installation Procedure can be terminated by pressing any key during the timeout.
- The installation script performs all required steps including installing Linux images onto the SSD storage device and setting up the boot environment.
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The Automatic Installation script cleans up the SSD device during the installation procedure. All data stored on the SSD device will be lost. |
=== Mount Source /dev/mmcblk2p1 === * mount_source [ ] ===Installing OS=== * Updating partitions * Formatting partitions * mount_destination [ ] * Copying kernel files * Extracting user space rootfs.tar.bz2 218MiB 0:02:49 [1.29MiB/s] [================================>] 100% * unmount_destination [ ] ===Updating OS=== * mount_destination [ ] * Extracting user space kernel.update.tar.bz2 7.04MiB 0:00:04 [1.47MiB/s] [================================>] 100% * unmount_destination [ ] === Unmount Source /dev/mmcblk2p1 === * unmount_source [ ] Please remove installation SD card ... Press any key to cancel restart 0 ...
- Please remember to remove the installation SD card.
Troubleshooting
Automatic installation doesn't start
The U-Boot environment should be set to default:
- Power on the board.
- Press and hold Ctrl-C to get command prompt.
- Set default U-Boot environment and boot the board:
CM-FX6 # env default -a CM-FX6 # run bootcmd
The installer was not able to unmount the SSD and terminated with an error
- Clean up the SSD boot area and halt the board.
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M count=16 # halt
- Power on the board.
- Press and hold Ctrl-C to get command prompt.
- Set default U-Boot environment and boot the board:
CM-FX6 # env default -a CM-FX6 # run bootcmd
