I have successfully booted up my Sd One for the first time a few days ago using a Win10 machine, but today I decided to following the video instructions to do it from an Ubuntu machine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=38&v=_VFqfAGwSEQ
The resulting SD card is significantly different from my working SD card, which additionally includes many directories and a config file. The SD card I made with the video instructions doesn’t appear to boot.
Have I made a mistake, or is it a known issue that the video steps no longer work?
J.
Hi Jason,
Welcome aboard! Can you elaborate on what is different between the card you created via Ubuntu vs. Windows? Here’s a quick and dirty video showing how to create an SD card in Ubuntu/UNIX: https://youtu.be/lXH6xQiwv5Q
The comment actually does a pretty good job of explaining the additional steps that need to be taken (which I’m assuming you already did if you perviously got the board booting). Not sure if you checked out the r2p0 ReadMe, which can also be found in /boot on the newly imaged SD card: http://krtkl.com/uploads/snickerdoodle-sdcard-r2p1-README.pdf
Let me know if the above helps or if you’re still having issues.
-Cousins
Hi Ryan.
Thanks for the welcome.
The video that takes one through the Ubuntu steps pulls from github and puts five files on a FAT32 partition rather than downloading an image file. It doesn’t seem to create a linux partition. The Ubuntu video steps do seem to work for the person in the video, but not for me. The Mac video you just shared with me takes steps similar to Windows version, which does work, so I’d expect the Mac video to work fine. – (Also of note, the github repo that the Ubuntu video uses has fewer subdirectories than the image file has.)
I’m posting mostly so that I can help improve the experience of new Sd users that come after me. If I can help out further, please let me know.
J.
Yeah, that video was created several years ago before we moved to the ‘one image to rule them all’ scheme (a la r2p1). You can certainly rebuild the image from scratch, but I’d generally recommend people download the image from our Downloads page, unzip it, and ‘dd’ it to the card on Linux/Mac (or image the card using the formatting utility of your choosing on Windows).
But you bring up a good point, we should probably “prune” the old/deprecated videos and tutorials at some point to avoid confusion.
-RC
That sounds good. And when appropriate, replace, rather than simply remove.
I’ve added a comment to the Ubuntu video page that might help some users become aware that the video is out of date.