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Alternative Linux procedure (Use at your own risk!)

Last modified by Microchip on 2025/02/28 12:36

Alternative Linux procedure (Use at your own risk!)

  • Uncompress the image:
bunzip2 linux4sam-poky-sama5d2_xplained-5.0.img.bz2

The compressed image will be removed and you will get the uncompressed image named linux4sam-poky-sama5d2_xplained-5.0.img.

  • Insert your SD card. To identify the device, use the dmesg command.

If you have an integrated SD card reader, you should have something like this:

[74402.090920] mmc0: new high speed SDXC card at address 0007
[74402.091329] mmcblk0: mmc0:0007 SD64G 58.1 GiB
[74402.092653]  mmcblk0: p1 p2

The device is mmcblk0.

If you have a usb adapter, you should have something like this:

[74450.341001] usb 2-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 7 using ehci-pci
[74450.434871] usb 2-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=058f, idProduct=6366
[74450.434877] usb 2-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[74450.434880] usb 2-1.2: Product: Mass Storage Device
[74450.434883] usb 2-1.2: Manufacturer: Generic
[74450.434885] usb 2-1.2: SerialNumber: 058F63666433
[74450.435551] usb-storage 2-1.2:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[74450.435765] scsi host10: usb-storage 2-1.2:1.0
[74451.567171] scsi 10:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Multiple Card  Reader     1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[74451.568032] sd 10:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
[74452.338367] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc] 121864192 512-byte logical blocks: (62.3 GB/58.1 GiB)

The device is sdc.

  • Once you have identified the your SD device you can write the image on it with the dd command.
Warning

Warning: Be careful to not make any mistake about the device. You can lost your data if you write the image to your hard drive(s) which are usually /dev/sda or /dev/sdb.

sudo dd if=linux4sam-poky-sama5d2_xplained-5.0.img of=/dev/mmcblk0
  • Your SD card is ready!