VAR-SOM-MX6 - Ubuntu Linaro

Introduction

Variscite supports its VAR-SOM-MX6 with Linaro Ubuntu (11.10) distribution.

Your Ubuntu folder on your CD / FTP contains ready-to-run pre-built image which contain:Kernel, U-boot, and Ubuntu File system.

Variscite recommends the use of Ultra (class 10 and above) microSD for optimial performance.

Plug your SD card to your Linux machine, run dmesg and see what device is added (i.e. /dev/sdX).

Copy the Ubuntu image to your SD card:

$ gunzip mx6-som-ubuntu-oneric-sd.vx.img.gz
$ dd if=mx6-som-ubuntu-oneric-sd.vx.img of=/dev/sd<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">X</span> bs=4M

The default u-boot environment settings will load the on-som Nand flash based image.

In order to boot from SD-Card:

Power on board. press 'space' to enter u-boot prompt.
enter "nand erase". wait for completion. This operations will reset the default env settings to boot from Nand by default.
Power off board, and power on again, while pressing the 'boot-select' button

Username : linaro

password: linaro

Build Kernel and U-Boot from Sources

To build Linux kernel and U-Boot from sources follow the instructions from here.