EBC Exercise 40 Running buster on AI

Here are instructions on how to install a current image on the BeagleBone AI.

Download Current Image
Go to https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/bb.org/testing/ and click on the most current date. You'll see something like:



Click on buster-iot and you'll see:



Download the one that starts with am57xx and ends with .img.xz. Flash to an 8G SD card usig https://www.balena.io/etcher/.

Your SD card is ready to run on an x15, so next we update u-boot to run on an AI.

Download u-boot
Next clone the u-boot source. (jadonk is private. beagleboard is public.)

host$ git clone https://github.com/beagleboard/beaglebone-ai.git host$ cd beaglebone-ai/SW/u-boot host$ sudo apt install bison flex device-tree-compiler host$ ./build.sh # Took about 6.5 minutes This will download u-boot and the correct compiler and compile u-boot. host$ export DISK=/dev/mmcblk0  # Make sure this points to your SD card host$ ./flash_mainline.sh 1+1 records in 1+1 records out 133062 bytes (133 kB, 130 KiB) copied, 0.00132487 s, 100 MB/s 2+1 records in 2+1 records out 1168016 bytes (1.2 MB, 1.1 MiB) copied, 0.00160025 s, 730 MB/s

Your SD card should be set up with a current u-boot.