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Help Flashing Fresh Android image to Riotboard uboot using Linux Mint as the enviroment

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Former Member over 9 years ago

hello all i am in desperate need of some emergency help. i use my riotboard for 90% of my online and technical work. And yesterday i was trying to adjust the screen resolution (which i have been wanting it to work on  a small hdmi for a while now) and somehow while in uboot i screwed something up and i need to put a fresh image on there. My original image was done using windows but i dont have access to that machine and i need to be able to flash on linux and i can only find directions online for windows and the directions i do find for linux are for flashing ubuntu not android.  i need a mfgtool for linux which ive been seeing is apperently out there somewhere, i just dont have the ability to produce. if i could only find step by step directioins for flashing android KK or LP to the board and NOT a  SD card i need it to be on the actual board. someone please help me. i have a uart cable so i think im set to go i just need the directions. someone please!!! help!!! thank you

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  • radiatortwo
    0 radiatortwo over 9 years ago

    I don´t think there is currently a MfgTool available for Linux.

     

    Also you say you have UART connection?

    Doesn´t it show up anything on the console when starting?

    I doubt you can screw uboot completely up by changing the boot variables...

     

    If you really need to flash, you have two options:

     

    1. Use a SDCard and flash per this description.

    http://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-68087/l/riotboard-updating-os-images-in-linux-environment

    Then dd the sdcard onto the internal flash.


    2. Install a VMWare Windows virtual machine in Linux, and passthrough the USB device to use MFGTool.

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    0 Former Member over 9 years ago in reply to radiatortwo

    well see this is the problem.. i want to go and do the sdcard option, but that tells you how to flash ubuntu not android. its totally different. I dont know how to translate the different partition flashing and what not.. Like the first thing to do is flash the uboot image...thats fine but then it gets hard, wants you to flash the kernel and other parts but they tell you exactly what to flash, with android i have no idea what parts to put where.

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    0 Former Member over 9 years ago in reply to Former Member

    so if i choose to use the vmware virtual machine.. how would i go about connecting the riotboard to it?

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    0 radiatortwo over 9 years ago in reply to Former Member

    The steps described to flash the image are in the ucl2.xml file.
    Those are basically nothing but Linux console commands.

    But you do know that there are SDCard images for Android to download?

     

    Just use one of them and dd them onto the sdcard.

    dd bs=4M if=android.img of=/dev/sdd

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    0 radiatortwo over 9 years ago in reply to Former Member

    Boot up the Windows virtual machine and connect the Riotboard the same way as in Windows, then tell vmware to connect the USB HID Device from the host to the vm.
    Everything else is the same as in windows.

     

    Here is a description on how To install VMWare in Ubuntu/Mint:

    https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-vmware-player-on-ubuntu-11.04-linux-mint-11

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