Porting ubuntu 13.10 on beagle board xm with GUI

Beagle board with GUI

Get prebuilt image:

wget https://rcn-ee.net/deb/rootfs/saucy/ubuntu-13.10-console-armhf-2013-11-15.tar.xz


Verify image with:

md5sum ubuntu-13.10-console-armhf-2013-11-15.tar.xz

8de42541ee3687d6a167878d4f873481  ubuntu-13.10-console-armhf-2013-11-15.tar.xz

 Unpack image:

 tar xJf ubuntu-13.10-console-armhf-2013-11-15.tar.xz

cd ubuntu-13.10-console-armhf-2013-11-15


 If you don't know the location of your SD card:

sudo ./setup_sdcard.sh --probe-mmc

 You should see something like

Are you sure? I don't see [/dev/idontknow], here is what I do see...

fdisk -l:

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes <- x86 Root Drive

Disk /dev/sdd: 3957 MB, 3957325824 bytes <- MMC/SD card


lsblk:

NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT

sda      8:0    0 465.8G  0 disk

├─sda1   8:1    0 446.9G  0 part /  <- x86 Root Partition

├─sda2   8:2    0     1K  0 part

└─sda5   8:5    0  18.9G  0 part [SWAP]

sdd      8:48   1   3.7G  0 disk

├─sdd1   8:49   1    64M  0 part

└─sdd2   8:50   1   3.6G  0 part

    In this example, we can see via mount, /dev/sda1 is the x86 rootfs, therefore /dev/sdd is the other drive in the system, which is the MMC/SD card that was inserted and should be used by ./setup_sdcard.sh...

1.   install image:
2.   Quick install script for "board"
3.   sudo ./setup_sdcard.sh --mmc /dev/sdX --uboot beagle_xm


Quick install script for "board" (using new --dtb option)

sudo ./setup_sdcard.sh --mmc /dev/sdX --dtb dt-beagle-xm

You should now be able to unmount the SD card from you PC, insert into your Board, reboot and have the OS loaded.

For a basic framebuffer driven desktop environment: (make sure network is setup):

Ethernet: "sudo ifconfig -a" and "sudo dhclient usb1" or "sudo dhclient eth0"

Then run:

/bin/sh /boot/uboot/tools/ubuntu/small-lxde-desktop.sh

Select any one of GUI listed below as per your need,

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop

sudo apt-get install lubuntu-desktop

sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop

sudo apt-get -y install lxde lxde-core lxde-icon-theme

Keep in mind that lxde is light weight and its most preferable....



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reference

http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:Installing_LXDE

http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu

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Porting Ubuntu 12.10 (quantal) on beagle board Xm Rev C

Installing Ubuntu 12.10(quantal) on beagle board Xm Rev C

     This post is about installing Ubuntu on a hardware box with embedded Linux. Below I am logging few steps how it was done. Overall, this effort is for me to learn how to set up an Ubuntu in beagle board xm

• Hardware: 
• Beagle Board xM (rev C)
• micro SD card (4GB minimum but 8GB preferred) 
• Software: Ubuntu Linux kernel 3.8.13   

This blog assumes that its reader has a good deal of knowledge about using and installing Linux software.

 Make sure that you are a root user..

You need to prepare a root file system in the Micro SD card, so you have to connect it to Linux host PC (Am using ubuntu 12.04).


sudo apt-get update

wget https://rcn-ee.net/deb/rootfs/quantal/ubuntu-12.10-console-armhf-2013-08-24.tar.xz

Verify image with:

md5sum ubuntu-12.10-console-armhf-2013-08-24.tar.xz 

the expected response is

1d8c4999592123fdd3a51864394ccb49 ubuntu-12.10-console-armhf-2013-08-24.tar.xz

Unpack image:

tar xJf ubuntu-12.10-console-armhf-2013-08-24.tar.xz

cd ubuntu-12.10-console-armhf-2013-08-24

Connect the micro SD card to host PC

sudo ./setup_sdcard.sh --mmc /dev/sdX --uboot beagle_xm

if you don’t know the sdX value

sudo ./setup_sdcard.sh --probe-mmc

You should see something like

Are you sure? I don't see [/dev/idontknow], here is what I do see...

fdisk -l:

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes <- x86 Root Drive

Disk /dev/sdd: 3957 MB, 3957325824 bytes <- MMC/SD card

lsblk:

NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT

sda      8:0    0 465.8G  0 disk

├─sda1   8:1    0 446.9G  0 part /  <- x86 Root Partition

├─sda2   8:2    0     1K  0 part

└─sda5   8:5    0  18.9G  0 part [SWAP]

sdd      8:48   1   3.7G  0 disk

├─sdd1   8:49   1    64M  0 part

└─sdd2   8:50   1   3.6G  0 part

In this example, we can see via mount, /dev/sda1 is the x86 rootfs, therefore /dev/sdd is the other drive in the system, which is the MMC/SD card that was inserted and should be used by

 ./setup_sdcard.sh

Install image f or the Beagle Board xM:

sudo ./setup_sdcard.sh --mmc /dev/sdX --uboot beagle_xm

 After card preparation you can see the user name and password for that   kernel... and also you can see that SD card as two different drives and the      windows can detect only one in that... connect the SD card to beagle board xm.   You can  find the booting scripts of Ubuntu in UART (115200N81)or HDMI monitor if connected.

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