Connect the SD card to your host system and note the device (we will use /dev/sdX in this document).
Download the script matching your platform:
For development snapshots, a copy of make-sdcard is provided with each tarball. Be aware that the script may change between versions.
Fix permission by executing:
chmod +x make-sdcard
Then execute:
sudo ./make-sdcard /dev/sdX path_to_release_file.tar.xz
If you run ./make-sdcard without any parameters, it will show a brief help screen.
Please double check that you are using the correct device name for your card reader !
Otherwise you might loose valuable data.
link for pandaboard is not working
there is no more snapshots for panda.
Ask Rudi in private for that.
An snapshot can be found here:
http://download.geexbox.org/unsupported/geexbox-xbmc-omap4-pandaboard/
It seems, that there is a bug in the make-sdcard script – at least, for cuboxi target.
At “Writing u-boot” stage it tries to execute the following command to write u-boot into the boot sector:
dd if=$mountdir/boot/u-boot.imx of=$DEVICE bs=512 seek=2 conv=fsync
but ‘u-boot.imx’ file is missing in geexbox-3.1.cubox.tar.bz2 so this step fails.
The Cubox-i stuff is under heavy development. The script (which I have removed now) was for an earlier version…
I’m confused on the syntax here. I have a Cubox-i4. I try:
sudo ./make-sdcard-cubox /dev/mmcblk0 geexbox-3.1.cubox.tar.bz2 cuboxi
and I just get the help screen. What am I doing wrong?
There is no 3.1 release version for CuBox-i. The version you have is for the CuBox classic. CuBox-i support is only available in the development snapshots found here http://download.geexbox.org/snapshots/ . Hint: Don’t invest to much work in versions below r16920…
Hello, help please? I need ISO or IMG file for pandaboard where i can download it? I have not other PC with linux and can’t install from *.tar
thank you!
you should ask Rudi for that. He is the only one that build image for panda.
Hello, please help. The script is on a flash drive (/ media / 8) Do as it says in the instructions:
chmod + x / media/8/make
sudo: / media/8/make
and the terminal says: sudo: / media/8/make: command not found
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance!
Hi! I flashed the system on a cubox i2-ultra and works fine on telent, but I can’t see anything on screen. Is there any tutorial of how to enable it?
Help please! Nothing helps. The script does not work, hands does not work, if someone can make the image for PandaBoard
Thank you very much!
Should this work on cubietruck? Because of it doesn’t start – even leds are off,
The A10 image we provide will most likely not work on the Cubietruck. You need a different kernel config, u-boot config and script.bin. Our build system can produce this, but nobody has tried…
Are you planning to make image for Cubietruck? Sorry, my skill is not enough to do it… ((
There are are several issues with AllWinner hardware in general and with A20 especially. See https://github.com/OpenBricks/openbricks/issues/38#issuecomment-65787231
Unless this is resolved we will not provide images.
I think there is a problem with the script or with the geebox image for Cubox i4pro because after I follow all the steps above the machine does not boot! There is no error message no nothing!
This is not workinhg on Raspberry pi2 . I ran the script and all ran fine but when I tried the sdcard in the Raspberry it didn’t do anything. Ive checked the sdcard and it has two partitions and everything seems to be there so BOOT & GEEXBOX I also looked in /var/logs and there are no logs so its definately not making anyattemp to boot. Any ideas?
I just tried the “20151205-rd6da297” snapshot and it works as it should. You did not try to use a RaspberryPi image on a RaspberryPi2, did you? Because that won’t work. For recent builds, please look here: http://download.geexbox.org/snapshots/