GeeXboX

To boot GeeXboX on your Pandaboard you will need to prepare a SD card. We’ll eventually provide a script to automate most of these steps, but for now you’ll have to do the preparation manually.

Connect the SD card to your host system and note the device (we will use /dev/sdd in this document).

Umount any partitions on the SD card

Erase SD card partition table

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdd bs=512 count=8

Partition the SD card

fdisk /dev/sdd

create (n) one small boot partition (100MB), and change its type (t) to FAT (0c)

create (n) a data partition in the remaining space

mark as active/bootable (a) the boot partition

save your changes and quit (w)

Create the filesystems

mkfs.vfat -n boot /dev/sdd1
mkfs.ext3 -L GEEXBOX /dev/sdd2

Fetch the GeeXboX for Pandaboard tarball and unpack it

Extract rootfs.tar.bz2 onto the data partition

mount /dev/sdd2 /mnt
tar xjf rootfs.tar.bz2 -C /mnt

Extract boot.tar.bz2 onto the boot partition

mkdir /mnt/boot
mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt/boot
tar xjf boot.tar.bz2 -C /mnt

Unmount the partitions

umount /mnt/boot
umount /mnt

Plug the SD card into your Pandaboard, connect power, HDMI and optionally ethernet, and enjoy!