VAR-SOM-AM33 Yocto NAND Recovery
NAND Recovery introduction
As an easy and fast way to recover the VAR-SOM-AM33 NAND flash, Variscite provides a recovery SD card image that can be used to install the pre-built Linux and Android systems.
This SD card image includes a script (nand-recovery.sh) that installs all the boot images and root file-system.
Download Variscite's pre-built recovery SD card image
Download am33-som-nand_recovery-sd-....img.gz from Variscite's FTP server: ftp://customerv:Variscite1@ftp.variscite.com/VAR-SOM-AM33/Software
Write the image to an SD card
Double check that the device is correct to avoid accidentally overwriting a different device and potentially damaging your existing operating system.
Using a Linux based host
Plug-in the SD card to your Linux host PC, run dmesg and see which device is added (i.e. /dev/sdX or /dev/mmcblkX)
$ sudo umount /dev/sdX?* # For files: $ <image name>. | sudo dd of=/dev/sdX bs=1M && sync (Replace /dev/sdX with your actual device)
Using a Windows based host
- Download Win32 Disk Imager from: https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/ and install it.
- Extract the downloaded image:
- Insert your SD card into your PC.
No need to format the SD card before writing the image to it, as the card will be formatted once it will be flashed. - Run the file named Win32DiskImager.exe (in Windows 7, 8 and 10 we recommend that you right-click this file and choose “Run as administrator”).
- If the SD card (Device) you are using isn’t found automatically. Click on the drop down box and select it.
- In the Image File box, choose the .img/.wic file you have extracted previously.
- Click Write.
- After a few minutes, you receive a notification that your SD has been created successfully.
Using a Mac OS X host
Use the dd Utility for MAC OS X to flash .img/.wic files to your SD card
Connect target debug serial to linux host
Follow : http://www.variscite.com/images/stories/DataSheets/VAR_DVK_AM33_V1.11_Quick_Start_Guide_V1.0.pdf
to connect target serial debug port to host PC
Boot NAND recovery SD-Card
- Power-off the board.
- Insert the SD card into the SD/MMC slot of the carrier board (DVK)
- Press and hold the boot-select button, and power-on the board while button is pressed
- The board will automatically boot into Linux from SD-Card
- login as 'root', no password is required
NAND recovery script usage
NAND recovery script usage:
usage: /sbin/nand-recovery.sh options This script install Linux/Android binaries in VAR-SOM-AM33 NAND. OPTIONS: -h Show this message -o <Linux|Android> OS type (default: Linux).