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*The microsd card must be content at latest 2 partitions.
*The first one must be primary partition with the boot flag mark and formated using FAT filesystemfile system.
*All names used in this partition must be msdos names, it means you cannot use a extended names.
*The processor must load a first program called '''MLO''', this program must reside in the first partition, this program it's also called '''x-loader.'''
''The processor ONLY load and execute the MLO program and ignore all the rest it's the X-loader(MLO) the program responsable responsible to load the next programs such kernel or uboot if you use this last one aproachapproach.''
== Prerequisites ==
= Preparing the microSD card =
Insert a new microsd card in your PC, you should see in your dmesg somthing something like this after insert a new microsd card:
<pre>mmc0: new high speed SDHC card at address 0001
mmcblk0: mmc0:0001 00000 3.79 GiB
=== Create the ROOTFS Partition ===
The Next step it's create the root filesystem file system partition.
First you should select the unallocated partition area and then 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]] We will configure the rootfs partition as:<br>
=== Create the Rootfs mount point ===
Go to /media directory and create one subfolder sub-folder called "binary"
<pre>$ cd /media
[[Image:Linaro Boot1.png|thumb|center]][[Image:Linaro Boot2.png|thumb|center]]
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