[SOLVED] How to burn sd

campioncino · Published in 2016-9-18 19:56:23

Edited by jernej at 2016-9-21 19:42

Probably this is one of most idiot question of the entire forum, but I don't remember how to "burn the image on a SD card"
I built my own image. Now I have to copy my .img.gz, or something else? I've already copied the file, and put on my orangepi+, but nothing appears.

jernej · Published in 2016-9-19 01:00:25

Depends what you want to do. If you want to burn clean image, then you have to unzip .img.gz file and use a tool like dd (Linux) or Rufus (Windows) to burn it on SD card. If you have already working OpenELEC instalation and you want to update it, then you need a .tar file and follow a procedure linked in FAQ topic.

campioncino · Published in 2016-9-19 01:13:42

ok, i need DD to copy the unzipped file...
Something like this, i suppose

sudo dd bs=4M if=OpenELEC-H3.arm-7.0.img |pv|sudo dd of=/dev/mmcblk0

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jernej · Published in 2016-9-19 01:28:50

campioncino replied at 2016-9-18 18:13
ok, i need DD to copy the unzipped file...
Something like this, i suppose

Something like that, yes. I'm using more straightforward command, like:

sudo dd if=OpenELEC-H3.arm-7.0-devel-20160902165101-r22887-g72d778d-opipcplus.img of=/dev/sdb

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Are you sure that your SD card is marked as mmcblk? Just be careful not to mess up this device name, otherwise you will overwrite something you don't want

campioncino · Published in 2016-9-19 05:17:38

ok, thanks a lot!
i'll try

campioncino · Published in 2016-9-20 01:19:53

I'm a little bit confused.

$ sudo umount /dev/mmcblk0p1
$ sudo dd if=OpenELEC-H3.arm-7.0-devel-20160806193109-r22886-g5828aec-opiplus.img |pv|sudo dd of=/dev/mmcblk0
$ sudo sync

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put the card into my opiplus
but no signal from opi...

jernej · Published in 2016-9-20 01:30:52

Put SD card in PC and check if there are two partitions. One FAT (512 MB), which should have KERNEL, SYSTEM, boot.scr and script.bin files and another, much smaller (32 MB) ext4 partition with probably just one empty file.

campioncino · Published in 2016-9-20 04:04:51

I changed my sd card, and now it seems to be ok.

/dev/mmcblk0p2 3,1G 2,5M 3,1G 1% /media/user/0fd0eaf9-0216-4277-99b2-0d95bcc0b8a0
/dev/mmcblk0p1 512M 130M 383M 26% /media/user/6820-9249

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But now i cannot install it to my orangepiplus (emmc) through ssh

OpenELEC:/ # emmc_install.sh
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Installing OpenELEC to eMMC
===============================
Error: eMMC not found.

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jernej · Published in 2016-9-20 04:33:52

Please provide output of:

ls /dev

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I checked script.bin and everything seems fine. Anyway, this is weird, Plus was the first board which supported eMMC installation.

campioncino · Published in 2016-9-20 05:23:09

OpenELEC:~ # e
e2fsck egrep env ethtool
e2label eject espeak eventlircd
ebtables-compat emmc_install.sh ether-wake
OpenELEC:~ # emmc_install.sh
===============================
Installing OpenELEC to eMMC
===============================
Error: eMMC not found.
OpenELEC:~ # ls /dev/
SYSTEM loop4 tty17 tty53
apm_bios loop5 tty18 tty54
autofs loop6 tty19 tty55
block loop7 tty2 tty56
btrfs-control mali tty20 tty57
bus mem tty21 tty58
cachefiles mmcblk0 tty22 tty59
cedar_dev mmcblk0p1 tty23 tty6
char mmcblk0p2 tty24 tty60
console mqueue tty25 tty61
cpu_dma_latency net tty26 tty62
cuse network_latency tty27 tty63
deinterlace network_throughput tty28 tty7
disk null tty29 tty8
disp ppp tty3 tty9
fb0 ptmx tty30 ttyS0
fb1 pts tty31 tv
fb2 random tty32 uhid
fb3 rfkill tty33 uinput
fb4 rtc tty34 ump
fb5 rtc0 tty35 urandom
fb6 shm tty36 vcs
fb7 snd tty37 vcs1
fd spidev0.0 tty38 vcs2
full stderr tty39 vcs3
fuse stdin tty4 vcs4
hdmi stdout tty40 vcs5
hidraw0 sunxi-reg tty41 vcs6
i2c-0 sunxi_hdmi_cec tty42 vcsa
initctl sunxi_soc_info tty43 vcsa1
input tty tty44 vcsa2
ion tty0 tty45 vcsa3
kmsg tty1 tty46 vcsa4
lirc0 tty10 tty47 vcsa5
log tty11 tty48 vcsa6
loop-control tty12 tty49 vmouse
loop0 tty13 tty5 watchdog
loop1 tty14 tty50 zero
loop2 tty15 tty51
loop3 tty16 tty52

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