Boot into the installation environment (ramdisk)
- Start terminal emulation software on your PC with the following serial port settings:
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Data Bits
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Stop Bits
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Parity
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Flow Control
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| 115200
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8
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1
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none
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none
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- Insert the installation media into the MMC/SD socket (P9) or USB connector (P6) on the SBC-AM57x.
- Make sure no other removable media is plugged.
- Turn on the device. Press a key to prevent a possible autoboot and get into the U-Boot command prompt.
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If the boot settings of your device are different than the default, you may need to press and hold Ctrl-C while turning the device on, in order to get command prompt.
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- Use the following U-Boot commands to boot the installation environment from the installation SD card:
U-Boot# mmc dev 0 && mmc rescan
U-Boot# load mmc 0 0x88000000 ramdisk.dtb && load mmc 0 0x82000000 kernel.img && load mmc 0 0x88080000 ramdisk.img
U-Boot# setenv bootargs "root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=16384 console=ttyO2,115200n8 vram=16M"
U-Boot# bootz 0x82000000 0x88080000 0x88000000
- Use the following U-Boot commands to boot the installation environment from the installation USB storage:
U-Boot # usb start
U-Boot # load usb 0 0x88000000 ramdisk.dtb && load usb 0 0x82000000 kernel.img && load usb 0 0x88080000 ramdisk.img
U-Boot # setenv bootargs "root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=16384 console=ttyO2,115200n8 vram=16M"
U-Boot # bootz 0x82000000 0x88080000 0x88000000
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For networked installation
Use the following U-Boot commands to boot the installation environment from a TFTP and NFS servers:
U-Boot# dhcp; setenv serverip <tftp server ip address>
U-Boot# setenv bootargs "root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=16384 console=ttyO2,115200n8 vram=16M ip=dhcp"
U-Boot# tftpboot 0x88000000 ramdisk.dtb; tftpboot 0x82000000 kernel.img; U-Boot# tftpboot 0x88080000 ramdisk.img
U-Boot# bootz 0x82000000 0x88080000 0x88000000
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