This guide shows you how to install lubuntu desktopservers rootfs from nandflash to the hard drive. File formats supported in excel for mac excel for mac. Banana pro change display resolution for framebuffer. Best formats to give to mac users are txt, rtf, and pdf. Similarly, some mac os applications need to see carriage return characters at the ends of lines, and may treat unixformat files as one long line. The uboot hush shell uboot contains a shell, hush, which can be used on startup via a terminal. Many of the listed commands assume binbash as the default shell. Mac address is factory preinstalled at on board i2c eeprom at offset 60 bytes. This is a bootscript, the file that defines the boot configuration, similar to the bootloader. If a wireless network is available, you can choose it from the wi. When booting for the first time, uboot tries to fetch the mac address from the. Img file such as the sd card in an sd card reader into your raspberry pi unit or attached usb hub.
The other trick ill need to figure out is how to deal with saveenv as uboot wants to write back to flash and when it does this it seems to overwrite itself. Set macaddress on boot banana pi bpir2bpir64 banana pi. I think textedit default mac text app can even convert word documents but id go for txt or rtf to be on the safe side. Force beaglebone to boot your settings on powerup from. It can be loaded and put into the environment manually. Running a recent supported release of debian, fedora or ubuntu on a x86 64bit based pc. Open terminal on your mac either by spotlight or by navigating to applications utilities. Also enable the ability to override uboot environment variables using a file called uenv. Then, it is imported to the environment ready to be read or executed line 22. The cubietruck is a 5v 2a singleboard computer sbc pc on board pcb much like the raspberry pi that has taken the world with a craze but the cubietruck is just faster, better and stronger. For more information about uboot scripting, refer to the uboot faq and uboot manual. Adding other kernel commandline options mpurate, debugfs, etc. Go to the applications folder on your mac s hard drive, then go to the utilities folder, and launch disk utility.
The command that can be used for this is the textutil command, which can be used to convert a document to a specified format. When using a usbethernet dongle a valid mac address must be set in the environment. The binary format is not yet finalized, and backward compatibility isnt yet guaranteed. Installing the rootfs to ssd hard drive, makes the cubietruck really like a linux pc. Older versions of uboot used a similar sequence, but with a uenv. So there is no need to include the mac version of reader. Moving rootfs from nandflash to hard drive cubieboard. I have a small problem, the uboot does not read uenv.
Because mac os x is a meld of unix and the older mac os, in some cases text files have carriage returns and in others they have line feeds. Insert the flash drive or hard drive you want to format for windows compatibility. Especially in case you are using some hdmi vga converter, this resolutionrelated issue can be expected. Fix the automatic read of the arty z7 mac address from the otp region of the quad spi flash. How to set a fixed mac address in a leopardboard dm36x. The various commands in the uenvcmd variable must be on the same line separated by a semicolon. This is how to install and setup the latest lubuntu software pack on to the nand flash on the cubietruck from a mac os x computer cubietruck. Berryboot is a simple boot selection screen for arm computers like the raspberry pi, that allows you to put multiple linux distributions on a single sd card. On a mac you will need to use a third party app such as the unarchiver as the native mac app doesnt support.
Each line is a uboot command that uboot will execute when starting up. How to batch convert text files to other formats in mac. The uenvcmd variable can be declared, which will be run before loading and booting the kernel. Compatible with excel 98 through excel 2004 for mac and excel 97 through excel 2003 for windows. Ubootenvvariables universal operating system installer for people short on sd cards. Beaglebone debug console stuff makeit labs member wiki.
There is the commercial product paragon extfs for mac with which you can format even ext4 i use it from time to time to access ext3 external hdd and it works quite well from their website. Just add the additional options on the end of the line that the video setting is on. And macs do not need to install adobe reader to open pdfs. We can find this environment variable either in the uboots prompt if we are using nand booting or in the uenv. We also can set a fixed mac address for the kernel using the same mac address that was set for the uboot, in order to do that we need to modify the bootcmd parameter in the uboot environment. This allows easy override of common variables, such as the bootargs. The xloader and uboot executables are stored in the files called mlo and. Creating and flashing of ubifs file system image is described over here note in case of am335x, file system partition is starting from 0x780000. This guide will presume you have a suitable tftp server set up, for example. It is the only material that help me with the meaning of uenv. Smarcfimx6 linux on smarc embedian developer center.
How to install lubuntu server on cubietruck from mac os x. How to reinstall macos from macos recovery apple support. Instructions to format the sd card can be found here. Learn how to use macos recovery to reinstall the mac operating system on your builtin drive or an external drive. If you own a soc systemonachip named banana pro, you might face the issue that most linux distros available for this board do not respect the display resolution that you set in the uenv.
This part of the script checks for the existence of a file called uenv. Boot into your raspberry pi with the original berryboot sd card. The variable optargs can be set to add any extra settings to the bootargs. The media access control mac address is a binary number used to identify computer network adapters. This is a prebuilt 64bit version of gcc that runs on generic linux, sorry 32bit x86 users. Insert an sd card with capacity 4g or greater into your card reader and use disk utility to. An implementation of the ext2 linux filesystem for mac os x.
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