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How to boot from MicroSD Card

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* Read: [[Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Toolchain]]
 ==Preparing the microSD card==
Open a terminal window and clear your dmesg using:
1024+0 records out
1048576 bytes (1.0 MB) copied, 0.43556 s, 2.4 MB/s</pre>
 
 
==Install GParted==
We will use the gparted program for create the partitions, if you don't have this program installed then you must install it with this command:
When the install procedure ends you can call the program from your system tools menu or directly using a terminal console.
===[[Image:Gparted initial.png|thumb|center]]======Create the MSDOS&nbsp;Partition Table===
The next step it's create the msdos table partition for it you should click in the "Device" menu and then in the "Create Partition Table" option.
===Create the BOOT Partition- IGEP Texas Instruments Processor based===<u>This Step it's only for OMAP35xx, DM37xx, AM335x, OMAP5432 processor based IGEP boards.</u> 
The Next step it's create the partitions for it you should go to the partition menu and select the "New" option then the application show a window like this:
* Format: FAT32
* Size: 100 MegaBytes
* Free Space Preceding: 0 MiB
* Label: Boot
* '''Align to: cylinder'''
It is recommended to '''apply changes''' now or you might get an error later.
 
===Create the BOOT Partition - IGEP NXP-Freescale Processor based===
<u>This Step it's only for iMX6 processor based IGEP boards.</u>
 
The Next step it's create the partitions for it you should go to the partition menu and select the "New" option then the application show a window like this:
 
[[Image:Gparted create first partition.png|thumb|center]]We will configure the partition as:
 
* Primary Partition
* Format: FAT32
* Free Space Preceding: 8 MiB
* Size: 100 MegaBytes
* Label: Boot
* '''Align to: cylinder'''
 
<br /> We must "add" the partition and gparted shows a partitions structure like this:
 
[[Image:Gparted configure boot partition.png|thumb|center]]
 
It is recommended to '''apply changes''' now or you might get an error later.
 
 
[[Image:Microsd partitions.png|thumb|center]]
 
[[Image:Rename Xloader to MLO.png|thumb|center]]Now we're ready for test the board boot from the microsd card.
 
[[Image:IGEP-X-Loader Boot.png|thumb|center]]
 
Notes: IGEPv5 must use Hard floating Rootfs