topic Re: imx6 usb boot in i.MX Processors

imx6 usb boot

bonzo — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 01:21:34 GMT

Is there anyway to start uboot on a Sabre Lite board (or other board) from a USB thumb drive?

Is this even possible?

fabio_estevam — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 01:29:38 GMT

From the mx6 reference manual:

"The i.MX 6Series boot ROM supports the following boot devices:

NOR Flash

NAND Flash

OneNAND Flash

SD/MMC

Serial ATA (SATA) HDD

Serial ROM devices"

,so you you cannot boot directly from a USB thumb.

What you can do is to boot from one of the supported medium and then boot the kernel from a USB thumb.

Mainline U-boot does support loading a kernel from a USB thumb.

Regards,

Fabio Estevam

manjunathjoshi — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 11:15:53 GMT

Hello Fabio,

Can you just elaborate on mainline u-boot you are talking about? I was in need of little more info on the same.

The info i mean to say is the path for the source or the download option. Anything else that's required to know.

Regards,

Manju