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Failing to create SD card image of Angstrom Linux for Altera SoCrates (Cyclone V)
summary Using supplied SD card images I can (unsurprisingly) program an SD card which boots happily on the Altera SoCrates dev board. I have so far failed to build/generate an SD image for Angstrom for Altera SoCrates which successfully boots. details Using supplied images: Angstrom (2014.06) image has two partitions: $ sudo udevadm info -q all -n /dev/mmcblk0p1 S: disk/by-id/mmc-SA08G_0x1f6caf0e-part1 E: DEVLINKS=/dev/disk/by-id/mmc-SA08G_0x1f6caf0e-part1 E: DEVNAME=/dev/mmcblk0p1 E: ID_PART_ENTRY_TYPE=0xa2 $ sudo udevadm info -q all -n /dev/mmcblk0p2 S: disk/by-id/mmc-SA08G_0x1f6caf0e-part2 S: disk/by-label/rootfs E: DEVLINKS=/dev/disk/by-id/mmc-SA08G_0x1f6caf0e-part2 /dev/disk/by-label/rootfs /dev/disk/by-uuid/0727d1df-c249-487a-8ad6-c3d1f5fc01b7 E: DEVNAME=/dev/mmcblk0p2 E: ID_FS_LABEL=rootfs E: ID_FS_LABEL_ENC=rootfs E: ID_FS_TYPE=ext3 ELDK image has 3 partitions: $ sudo udevadm info -q all -n /dev/mmcblk0p1 S: disk/by-id/mmc-SL08G_0x616a0011-part1 E: DEVLINKS=/dev/disk/by-id/mmc-SL08G_0x616a0011-part1 E: DEVNAME=/dev/mmcblk0p1 E: ID_PART_ENTRY_TYPE=0xa2 $ sudo udevadm info -q all -n /dev/mmcblk0p2 S: disk/by-id/mmc-SL08G_0x616a0011-part2 E: DEVLINKS=/dev/disk/by-id/mmc-SL08G_0x616a0011-part2 /dev/disk/by-uuid/A931-6EC1 E: DEVNAME=/dev/mmcblk0p2 E: ID_FS_TYPE=vfat $ sudo udevadm info -q all -n /dev/mmcblk0p3 S: disk/by-id/mmc-SL08G_0x616a0011-part3 E: DEVLINKS=/dev/disk/by-id/mmc-SL08G_0x616a0011-part3 /dev/disk/by-uuid/fc738dbc-dfec-47c0-af6d-f2cfac7b22b3 E: DEVNAME=/dev/mmcblk0p3 E: ID_FS_TYPE=ext3 I have tried two methods to generate my own SD card image: (1) Use pre-built binaries http://www.rocketboards.org/foswiki/documentation/gsrd141sdcard $ cd ~/linux-socfpga-gsrd-14.1-cv-bin $ sudo ~/make_sdimage.py -f -P preloader-mkpimage.bin,u-boot-socfpga_cyclone5.img,num=3,format=raw,size=10M,type=A2 -P rootfs/*,num=2,format=ext3,size=1500M -P zImage,u-boot.scr,soc_system.rbf,socfpga.dtb,num=1,format=vfat,size=500M -s 2G -n sd_card_image_cyclone5.bin (2) Build all from scratch http://www.rocketboards.org/foswiki/documentation/angstromonsocfpga_1 Angstrom v2014.06 This appears to complete successfully and the following files are created: Angstrom-console-image-eglibc-ipk-v2014.06-socfpga_cyclone5.rootfs.cpio Angstrom-console-image-eglibc-ipk-v2014.06-socfpga_cyclone5.rootfs.ext3 Angstrom-console-image-eglibc-ipk-v2014.06-socfpga_cyclone5.rootfs.manifest Angstrom-console-image-eglibc-ipk-v2014.06-socfpga_cyclone5.rootfs.tar.xz console-image-socfpga_cyclone5.cpio console-image-socfpga_cyclone5.ext3 console-image-socfpga_cyclone5.manifest console-image-socfpga_cyclone5.tar.xz file_list.txt modules--3.10-r1.2-socfpga_cyclone5-20141222135550.tgz modules--3.15-r1.2-socfpga_cyclone5-20141222105845.tgz modules-socfpga_cyclone5.tgz README_-_DO_NOT_DELETE_FILES_IN_THIS_DIRECTORY.txt socfpga_arria5-20141222135550.dtb socfpga_arria5.dtb socfpga_arria5_socdk-20141222105845.dtb socfpga_arria5_socdk.dtb socfpga_cyclone5-20141222135550.dtb socfpga_cyclone5.dtb socfpga_cyclone5_socdk-20141222105845.dtb socfpga_cyclone5_socdk.dtb socfpga_vt-20141222105845.dtb socfpga_vt-20141222135550.dtb socfpga_vt.dtb u-boot-socfpga_cyclone5 u-boot-socfpga_cyclone5-2013.01.01-r0 u-boot-socfpga_cyclone5-2013.01.01-r0.bin u-boot-socfpga_cyclone5-2013.01.01-r0.img u-boot-socfpga_cyclone5.bin u-boot-socfpga_cyclone5.img u-boot-spl-socfpga_cyclone5 u-boot-spl-socfpga_cyclone5-2013.01.01-r0 u-boot-spl-socfpga_cyclone5-2013.01.01-r0.bin u-boot-spl-socfpga_cyclone5.bin vmlinux vmlinux-3.10-r1-socfpga_cyclone5-20141222135550 vmlinux-3.15-r1-socfpga_cyclone5-20141222105845 zImage zImage--3.10-r1.2-socfpga_cyclone5-20141222135550.bin zImage--3.15-r1.2-socfpga_cyclone5-20141222105845.bin zImage-socfpga_cyclone5.bin *** problems/questions *** (1) Using the pre-built binaries the SD created does not boot correctly on the Altera SoCrates board. I suspect it is an issue with the dtb or perhaps it wasn't built for the SoCrates (the dtb file is socfpga.dtb not socfpga_socrates.dtb) Am I missing something? (2) Using the files built from scratch I can't see which files relate to the ones required for an SD image. How do I go from this to a SD card? (3) The working Angstrom and ELDK SD cards have a different number of partitions. I can't see what is on the 0xA2 Angstrom partition to see what files have been used. Any ideas on how I might view the contents of the 0xA2 partition? references http://www.rocketboards.org/foswiki/documentation/angstromonsocfpga_1 http://www.rocketboards.org/foswiki/documentation/gsrd141sdcard http://www.rocketboards.org/foswiki/documentation/gsrd141releasenotes (and the rest of the web through generic search engines to no avail) thanks Apologies in advance for any duplication or failure to adhere to forum rules, but I have tried to be as thorough as possible. Any help or suggestions will be gratefully received.Link Copied
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eehh..., nobody loves you siclone not even one answerd to your question. i am investigating the same thing. firstly, from what i suspect you must have 2 partitions on your sd card. and by some secret it turns out that both must be primary drives. none of them should be logical. you can create those by mini tool partition wizard. secondly, handbook tells us that
"The SD/MMC flash has a MBR that points to a specific offset at the start of the partition. The partition is of type 0xA2, a custom raw partition type without any file system. The preloader image tool always places the output image at the start of the output binary file, regardless of the target flash memory type" from this, we may assume that your micro sd Partition 1 should simply have all zeroes all over the place. without formatting. without any file sistem nor ex2 not fat just nothing. and we may assume that sd you are having has similar content inside. and there is no viewer which will let you to view contents of unformatted drive (at least from what i know)... tried few hex viewers all of them went crazy. by mini tool partition wizard you can create small partition without any format and fill it by zeroes then change the partition ID of that partition to 0xa2. you will find all the necessary tools in that software i suggested. then create second partition with fat 32 (or ex2 in case of linux ). your preloader will be uploaded to that crazy first partition and u boot will get into fat partition by using these tools "SD Card Boot Utility" and "Preloader Image Tool" both of which are built into EDS command shell which you will find in c:\altera\<whatever version you have>\embedded folder . and after some magic woodo commands that are described in this document https://www.altera.com/en_us/pdfs/literature/ug/ug_soc_eds.pdf you may or may not succeed in your goal heh... i am stuck exactly here. so tell me if you will find my help useful and share your experience as well . everythiong i wrote here are purely my assumptions and suspicions so i may very easily be wrong in something. you'l find some intriguingly interesting information about QSPI Flash on this post http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=42412&page=2&highlight=preloader+partition (by the way, i also am messing with SoCrates :))) )
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