Install OS in SD card

Requirement:

• SD card(16GB or larger)
• Internet
• Linux for tegra R21 is installed in eMMC on Jetson TK1
• (Optional)Host PC with Linux if you want to setup SD card using it.

Notes:

Instruction:

1. Login to machine to setup SD card
You can setup SD card with Jetson TK1 or Host PC with Linux and SD card slot.
2. Format SD card to ext4
this site might help to find optimal parameter.


sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/mmcblk1p1

3. Download Linux For Tegra R21.4 and Sample File System(Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS)

$ wget http://developer.download.nvidia.com/embedded/L4T/r21_Release_v4.0/Tegra124_Linux_R21.4.0_armhf.tbz2
$ wget http://developer.download.nvidia.com/embedded/L4T/r21_Release_v4.0/Tegra_Linux_Sample-Root-Filesystem_R21.4.0_armhf.tbz2

4. Mount SD card and extract them to SD card

$ sudo tar xpf Tegra124_Linux_R21.4.0_armhf.tbz2
$ sudo mount /dev/mmcblk1p1 Linux_for_Tegra/rootfs
$ cd Linux_for_Tegra/rootfs
$ sudo tar xpf ../../Tegra_Linux_Sample-Root-Filesystem_R21.4.0_armhf.tbz2

5. Run the apply_binaries.sh script to copy the NVIDIA libraries into rootfs directory

$ cd ..
$ sudo ./apply_binaries.sh

6. Copy extlinux.conf file
Path to a kernel file and kernel parameters are written in /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf.
U-Boot read this file and load kernel.
If U-Boot failed to read this file, it tries to boot from other storage.


$ cd rootfs/boot/extlinux/
$ sudo cp jetson-tk1_extlinux.conf.sdcard extlinux.conf

7. unmount SD card

$ cd ../../../
$ sync
$ sudo umount rootfs

8. Insert SD card to Jetson tk1 if it is not
9. Reboot Jetson

$ sudo reboot

10. Login to your Jetson TK1
11. Check Root file system size

$ df -h

12. Execute following command in Jetson TK1

$ sudo apt-add-repository universe
#Keep Jetson specific driver files.
$ sudo apt-mark hold xserver-xorg-core
#Update system
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade

13. Check whether Jetson specific driver files are not over written

sha1sum -c /etc/nv_tegra_release

Tips:

$ sudo apt-get install bash-completion command-not-found

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade