7 Deploy a disk image
This chapter describe how to write a disk image as generated in one of the previous chapters using Yocto or Debian to the
module.
Note: The variable
Warning: Avoid having the disk image on both the SD Card and the internal eMMC of the module.
As the Linux kernel on the module uses
whether the SD Card or the internal eMMC is used.
7.1 Deploy on SD Card
Insert an SD card into the host PC and check
Then, run this command, replacing
7.2 Deploy on internal eMMC
7.2.1 Compile rkdeveloptool
To write the image directly onto the on-board eMMC, the flashing tool rkdeveloptool is used, and it must be compiled on the
host PC:
This step should take about 1 minute total.
7.2.2 Enter USB flashing mode
To enter the USB flashing mode, make sure the
mode and there's no SD card inserted in the baseboard.
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must be already set as described in respective chapter.
and
to find out the device name that was used.
with the real device name:
slider (see Fig. 3.1 The base board for to PX30-uQ7 module) is in
to identify partitions to mount, it will be unpredictable