Booting From An Optional Sata Drive; Booting From A Usb Drive - SMART Embedded Computing MVME2500 Installation & Use Manual

6.3.2

Booting from an Optional SATA Drive

1. Make sure that the kernel, dtb, and ramdisk are saved in the SATA drive with ext2
partition.
2. Configure U-Boot environment variable:
setenv File_uImage <kernel_image>
setenv File_dtb <kernel dtb>
setenv File_ramdisk <ramdisk>
saveenv
3. Copy the files from the SATA drive to the memory:
# option: scsi - interface, 0:1 - device 0 partition 1
ext2load scsi 0:1 1000000 $File_uImage
ext2load scsi 0:1 2000000 $File_ramdisk
ext2load scsi 0:1 c00000 $File_dtb
4. Boot the Linux in memory.
bootm 1000000 2000000 c00000
6.3.3

Booting from a USB Drive

1. Make sure that the kernel, dtb, and ramdisk are saved in the USB drive with FAT
partition.
2. Configure the U-Boot environment variable:
setenv File_uImage <kernel_image>
setenv File_dtb <kernel dtb>
setenv File_ramdisk <ramdisk>
saveenv
3. Initialize USB drive:
usb start
4. Load the files from the USB drive to the memory:
# option: usb - interface, 0:1 - device 0 partition 1
fatload usb 0:1 1000000 $File_uImage
fatload usb 0:1 2000000 $File_ramdisk
fatload usb 0:1 c00000 $File_dtb
5. Boot the Linux in memory:
bootm 1000000 2000000 c00000
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