UCM-iMX8M-Mini: Android: Running from SD card

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Introduction

This article provides instructions needed to install the Android image on SD card using a Linux Host workstation. The image provides full boot system including U-Boot, Linux kernel, device driver modules and necessary filesystems.

Preparation steps

  • Obtain a Linux PC workstation.
  • Obtain a USB SD card reader and an micro-SD Card. Any commercially available micro-SD card of 8GB (or larger) may be used for the installation.
  • Plug the USB SD card reader into the host PC. Insert the micro-SD card into the card reader. From now we assume the device name of the SD card on your Linux PC is /dev/sdX.
  • Obtain the UCM-iMX8M-Mini Android image:
- Download the compressed UCM-iMX8M-Mini Android image from CompuLab website.
- Deflate the image to the uSD card:
unzip -p ucm-imx8m-mini_android-8gb-image.zip | sudo dd bs=1M of=/dev/sdX
OR
- Build your own Android image from source

Boot from the SD-card

  • Insert the prepared SD card into micro-SD socket P23
  • Power on the board
  • Press and hold SW6 (RESET) and SW7 (ALT_BOOT) buttons
  • Release SW6 and then SW7

The system will boot into Android.

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