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How to boot from MicroSD Card

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mmcblk0: mmc0:0001 00000 3.79 GiB
mmcblk0: unknown partition table
</pre>Ensure all in your microsd card it's erased:<br>
<pre>$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1024 count=1024
[sudo] password for jdoe:
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1048576 bytes (1.0 MB) copied, 0.43556 s, 2.4 MB/s</pre>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:== 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: <pre>sudo apt-get install gparted</pre>== GParted ==
When the install procedure ends you can call the program from your system tools menu or directly using a terminal console.
=== [[Image:Gparted_initialGparted initial.png|thumb|center]]<br><br>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. [[Image:Gparted_create_msdos_table_partition.png|thumb|center]]Check the default option it's create a msdos partition table after that you can apply. === Create the BOOT Partition === 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 in this case we configure the boot partition as msdos partition formated with fat32 size 100 MegaBytes and primary partition. [[Image:Gparted_configure_boot_partition.png|thumb|center]]We must "add" the partition and gparted shows a partitions structure like this. === Create the ROOTFS Partition === The Next step it's create the root filesystem partition. First you should select the unallocated partition area and then&nbsp; you should go to the partition menu and select the "New" option then the application show a window like this:<br>[[Image:Gparted_create_first_partition.png|thumb|center]]<br><br>  <br>
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