SD card programing -

Rick Stevens ricks at alldigital.com
Fri May 1 20:39:05 UTC 2015


On 05/01/2015 12:40 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
>
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> On 01/05/15 13:01, Rick Stevens wrote:
>>> it looks as though I
>>> simply need to install the Pidora system to it?
>>
>> Yup. Essentially:
>>
>>     dd if=/path/to/pidora.iso of=/dev/sdd bs=1M
>>
>> Note the "of=/dev/sdd" (the ENTIRE disk), NOT "of=/dev/sdd1" (a
>> partition). You want to whack the entire MicroSD.
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> The steps I performed:
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> [bobg at box10 Downloads]$ unzip Pidora-2014-R3.zip
>
> [root at box10 ~]# dd if=/home/bobg/Downloads/Pidora-2014-R3.img
> of=/dev/sdd bs=1M
>
> [root at box10 ~]# mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt/test/
>
> The result:
>
> [root at box10 ~]# ll /mnt/test/
> total 22808
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root   17836 Aug  1  2014 bootcode.bin
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root       2 Aug  1  2014 boot.scr
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root     134 Aug  1  2014 cmdline.txt
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root   93956 Aug  1  2014
> config-3.12.23-2.20140626git25673c3.rpfr20
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root     599 Aug  1  2014 config.txt
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root     465 Aug  1  2014 config.txt.hdmi_nooverscan
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root     540 Aug  1  2014 config.txt.hdmi_overscan
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root     524 Aug  1  2014 config.txt.ntsc_japan
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root     541 Aug  1  2014 config.txt.ntsc_northamerica
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root     494 Aug  1  2014 config.txt.pal
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root     498 Aug  1  2014 config.txt.pal_brazil
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root    2090 Aug  1  2014 fixup_cd.dat
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root    5860 Aug  1  2014 fixup.dat
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root    8833 Aug  1  2014 fixup_x.dat
> drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root    2048 Aug  1  2014 grub
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 8296084 Aug  1  2014
> kernel-3.12.23-2.20140626git25673c3.rpfr20.img
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 8296084 Aug  1  2014 kernel.img
> drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root    2048 Aug  1  2014 lost+found
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root  512952 Aug  1  2014 start_cd.elf
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 2572792 Aug  1  2014 start.elf
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root     407 Aug  1  2014 start.elf.desc
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 3515752 Aug  1  2014 start_x.elf
>
> That looks as though it might work but I need reassurance ...

Yup, that's about right. The dd command created at least one partition
and that's the contents of it. It also wrote a boot loader into the MBR
of the SD card. I think you're pretty much there. Boot that SD on your
RPi and you should be good to go.
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