Installing and booting an image on i.MX6 SOM eMMC

Background

The instructions below can be used to install the SolidRun provided Debian image on the i.MX6 SOM eMMC as an example. Customer can use these instructions to install any other Linux image.

wget https://images.solid-run.com/IMX6/Debian/sr-imx6-debian-stretch-cli-20180916.img.xz
  •  As root write the image to the eMMC:

xz -dc sr-imx6-debian-stretch-cli-20180916.img.xz | dd of=/dev/mmcblk2 bs=4M conv=fsync
  • Download bootloader images:

wget https://images.solid-run.com/IMX6/U-Boot/v2018.01/spl-imx6-sdhc.bin wget https://images.solid-run.com/IMX6/U-Boot/v2018.01/u-boot-imx6-sdhc.img

 

  • As root write the bootloader images to the eMMC:

  • Shut the system down with the ‘poweroff’ command

  • Disconnect power source

  • Set the boot select jumpers to eMMC boot

  • Boot the system from eMMC

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