Pico Projector Development KitCongratulations on your new DLP Pico Projector Development Kit. This is where you can find some demos to try it out with your Beagleboard. Oh, you haven't bought one yet? Here's how to get one . |
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Note: Currently, The SD cards and the instructions below for configuring an SD card are compatible with BeagleBoard versions up to version B5 only. An updated instruction set is in development with a planned availability date in late June.
Configure SD with partition images
Wait!!! OK so you don't want to configure the SD card yourself. Alright, then contact our friends at Special Computing. You can purchase a preconfigured SD card from Special Computing . If you obtain a preconfigured SD card then proceed to step 5 in the instructions below.
Proceeding to configure the SD card yourself. You'll need a 2GB or greater SD card and an adapter that works with your Linux host to configure Linux on your Beagleboard. The SD card needs to be formatted into a two-partition configuration and loaded with the images of preconfigured partitions.
If you already have a Linux host
- Format the SD card, two alternative methods. Both methods assume a 2GB SD card. If you're using a larger SD card then you can proportion the partitions in a similar ratio as in the examples.
- Download the two SD partition images.
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With the SD formatted and mounted on your Linux host, extract
the partition images to the SD card. The commands assume you're in the
directory where the image files reside otherwise type the full path
of the image file. Replace /media/beagle_fat with your SD fat
partition mount point, same for /media/beagle_ext3.
- sudo tar xvjf pico-sd-fat.tar.bz2 -C /media/beagle_fat
- sudo tar xvjf pico-sd-ext3.tar.bz2 -C /media/beagle_ext3
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Make sure you umount both SD card partitions once your SD card
has been configured.
- sudo umount /media/beagle_fat
- sudo umount /media/beagle_ext3
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Boot the Beagleboard with your newly formatted SD card.
You should see something like shown below in the TeraTerm display.
TeraTerm?
Texas Instruments X-Loader 1.41
Starting OS Bootloader...
U-Boot 1.3.3 (Jul 10 2008 - 16:33:09)
OMAP3530-GP rev 2, CPU-OPP2 L3-165MHz
OMAP3 Beagle Board + LPDDR/NAND
DRAM: 128 MB
NAND: 256 MiB
In: serial
Out: serial
Err: serial
Audio Tone on Speakers ... complete
OMAP3 beagleboard.org # -
At the prompt #, enter the following commands. The
Beagleboard will automatically boot from the SD card the next time
it is reset.
- setenv bootargs 'console=ttyS2,115200n8 console=tty0 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rw rootfstype=ext3 rootwait'
- setenv bootcmd 'mmcinit;fatload mmc 0 80300000 uImage;bootm 80300000'
- saveenv
- run bootcmd
If you don't have a Linux host
You can install Linux on your Windows PC, without disrupting your Windows setup. There are several options, Wubi and VMware are two options.
Creating a Linux installation under Windows
Wubi Method
- Download Wubi and install
VMware Method
