03. Boot from SD card

Boot from SD card

This is a short instruction that shows how to boot an imx6/imx6ul image at the very 1-st time.

The very 1-st boot

Covered machines: cl-som-imx6ul, cl-som-imx6 and cm-fx6-evk

cl-som-imx6ul

• Insert the sd-card into the SB-SOM-iMX6UL P9 slot. Make sure that a jumper is on P5-25 and P5-26 pins.

cl-som-imx6/cm-fx6-evk

• Insert the sd-card into the SB-FX6 P6 slot

• Power up the device
• Stop in U-Boot Issue:
  

⚠️ This sequence MUST be invoked for the very 1-st boot only ⚠️

env default -a; saveenv; reset

## Resetting to default environment
Saving Environment to SPI Flash...
SF: Detected M25PX16 with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 64 KiB, total 2 MiB
Erasing SPI flash...Writing to SPI flash...done
resetting ...

Hit any key to stop autoboot:  3

saveenv; boot

• Let the device boot up
• Evaluate this Yocto Release

Known issue

• See cl-som-imx6/MX6D boot issue