[Arm-dev] My test platforms

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Fri Aug 28 14:50:41 UTC 2015



On 08/28/2015 10:40 AM, Mandar Joshi wrote:
>> If I had a C2 image to work with, I would
>> spin that up to replace F22.
>>
> The only difference between the image for Cubietruck and the image for
> Cubieboard2 is the u-boot. I haven't tried this (as I don't have a
> Cubieboard2), but you should be able to use rbfinstaller.py from the
> rbf github repo to install the Cubietruck image on to a microSD card
> which would be usable on Cubieboard2. Just select Cubieboard2 from the
> boards list presented by rbfinstaller.py
>
> You can do this on your desktop.
> git clone https://github.com/mndar/rbf.git
> ./rbfinstaller.py <path-to-image.img> <microSD-device>
I did the clone.  Did it download an image file?  If so what do I use, 
Johnny's cubietruck-centos-image.img?

> Another option; you can just overwrite u-boot on the microSD with the
> one for Cubieboard2
> The u-boot used by RBF for Cubieboard2 is here
> https://github.com/mndar/rbf/tree/master/files/cubieboard2
> Write it to your microSD using this command. Assuming /dev/sdd is your
> microSD device
>
> dd if=u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin of=/dev/sdd bs=1024 seek=8 conv=fsync,notrunc
>
> Let us know if it works.
I use to do this a lot with Han's personal uboots when he was getting 
functions working in uboot during the F22 beta.  So I should be able to 
do this.




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