Commit 1c2329b5 authored by Niek Linnenbank's avatar Niek Linnenbank Committed by Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
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docs/orangepi: Add instructions for resizing SD image to power of two 



SD cards need to have a size of a power of two.
Update the Orange Pi machine documentation to include
instructions for resizing downloaded images using the
qemu-img command.

Signed-off-by: default avatarNiek Linnenbank <nieklinnenbank@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarPhilippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Message-Id: <20200712183708.15450-1-nieklinnenbank@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAlistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPhilippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
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docs/system/arm/orangepi.rst

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@@ -127,6 +127,16 @@ can be downloaded from: 
Alternatively, you can also choose to build you own image with buildroot

using the orangepi_pc_defconfig. Also see https://buildroot.org for more information.



When using an image as an SD card, it must be resized to a power of two. This can be

done with the qemu-img command. It is recommended to only increase the image size

instead of shrinking it to a power of two, to avoid loss of data. For example,

to prepare a downloaded Armbian image, first extract it and then increase

its size to one gigabyte as follows:



.. code-block:: bash



  $ qemu-img resize Armbian_19.11.3_Orangepipc_bionic_current_5.3.9.img 1G



You can choose to attach the selected image either as an SD card or as USB mass storage.

For example, to boot using the Orange Pi PC Debian image on SD card, simply add the -sd

argument and provide the proper root= kernel parameter:
@@ -213,12 +223,12 @@ Next, unzip the NetBSD image and write the U-Boot binary including SPL using: 
  $ dd if=/path/to/u-boot-sunxi-with-spl.bin of=armv7.img bs=1024 seek=8 conv=notrunc



Finally, before starting the machine the SD image must be extended such

that the NetBSD kernel will not conclude the NetBSD partition is larger than

the emulated SD card:

that the size of the SD image is a power of two and that the NetBSD kernel

will not conclude the NetBSD partition is larger than the emulated SD card:



.. code-block:: bash



  $ dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=64 >> armv7.img

  $ qemu-img resize armv7.img 2G



Start the machine using the following command: