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9 years ago

DE1-SOC SD card file system

I wanted to run the arm inside the DE1-SOC board. I created the bsp using the bsp-editor and compiled it. Now I have the preloader-mkpimage.bin file. I wanted to copy it to the SD Card. I noticed tha...
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9 years ago

Yes you are right. For the preloader it is not just copy and paste. This page has the info for you:

https://rocketboards.org/foswiki/view/documentation/gsrd131sdcard

In short, you need to mount your SDCard in linux system and then run:

$ sudo dd if=preloader-mkpimage.bin of=/dev/sdx3 bs=64k seek=0

where "sdx" is the device name of your SDCard. In my case it is "sdb" because I only have one other hard drive, which is mounted as "sda"