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8 years ago

a10gx board installation on Linux system - errors

An a10gx board previously used on a Windows machine with a 16.1_pro package w/o any problems (installed, initialized (flash was programmed with 'acl0 boardtest.aocx', loaded and ran 'hello-world' and...
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8 years ago

@c.peterson.intel, the instructions in the page you linked are completely correct and accurate, and if they are followed properly, everything will work correctly. You can extract the "a10_ref_initialization.tgz" file anywhere you want; you should just make sure to run the quartus_pgm commands from that folder. That is all.

The fact that your board is not detected is more likely than not because you did not correctly follow the procedure for programming the board via JTAG and rebooting your machine (one soft and one hard reboot).