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Burning image on Ubuntu

This tutorial is about how to burn image on Ubuntu.

Preperations

$ sudo apt-get install libusb-dev git

Get burning tool

Image burning tool on Ubuntu is in repository utils.

$ git clone https://github.com/khadas/utils

Or just pull it if you have cloned this repository.

$ cd /path/to/utils
$ git pull

Install burning tool

You need to install USB rules.

$ cd /path/to/utils
$ ./INSTALL

You will see this if successed.

Installing Amlogic flash-tool...

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Host PC: Ubuntu 16.04

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Installing USB rules...
[sudo] password for nick: 
Installing flash-tool...
Done!

Installing Rockchip flash-tool...

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Host PC: Ubuntu 16.04

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Installing USB rules...
Installing flash-tool...
Done!
Installing Khadas burn-tool...
Done!

Check the USB driver

You should bring your VIMs board enter upgrade mode.
Check the USB driver.

$ lsusb | grep Amlogic
Bus 002 Device 036: ID 1b8e:c003 Amlogic, Inc.

The message means that your board is recognized.

Check flash-tool.

$ cd /path/to/utils
$ ./aml-flash-tool/tools/update identify

You will see the message.

AmlUsbIdentifyHost
This firmware version is 0-7-0-16

How to burn image on Ubuntu

$ burn-tool -i /path/to/image

You will see the logs if successed.

Rebooting the board ........[OK]
Unpacking image [OK]
Initializing ddr ........[OK]
Running u-boot ........[OK]
Create partitions [OK]
Writing device tree [OK]
Writing bootloader [OK]
Wiping  data partition [OK]
Wiping  cache partition [OK]
Writing boot partition [OK]
Writing data partition [OK]
Writing logo partition [OK]
Writing system partition [OK]
Do you want to reset the board? y/n [n]? y
Resetting board [OK]

And you can add parameter --debug to print debug infomation.For more usage please refer to docs.

Uninstall burning tool

$ cd /path/to/utils
$ ./UNINSTALL

NOTICE

This burning tool has been verified on Ubuntu 14.04/16.04.As we don’t have environment of Ububtu 17.04/10 and other distributions, so I’m not sure whether it works well.

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I personal tend to give it a better and easy to type name for fast-burn-vims, like:

  • magic-tool
  • burn-tool
  • usb-tool
  • usbtool
  • utool
  • downtool
  • xtool
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Kindly feedback a better name @all forks :wink:

One more things is that, should be run the tool at any path instead of specify path.

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you could post a video because I did
sudo apt-get install libusb-dev git - ok
git clone https://github.com/khadas/utils ok
cd / path / to / utils error
git pull error
cd / path / to / utils error
cd flash-tool error
./INSTALL error
you could publish a video !!
thank you

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Is it possible to run it under osx?

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/path/to/utils means the directory where you clone utils to.

nick@Nick:~/test$ git clone https://github.com/khadas/utils
Cloning into 'utils'...
remote: Counting objects: 55, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (11/11), done.
remote: Total 55 (delta 10), reused 21 (delta 10), pack-reused 33
Unpacking objects: 100% (55/55), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
nick@Nick:~/test$ cd utils/
nick@Nick:~/test/utils$ cd flash-tool/
nick@Nick:~/test/utils/flash-tool$ ls
docs  fast-burn-vims  flash-tool  INSTALL  rules  tools  UNINSTALL
nick@Nick:~/test/utils/flash-tool$
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Hi kkkkk,

Not support OSX yet.

Thanks.

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It seems linux-x86-64 is mandated so unable to test on Raspbian/Raspberry Pi. And INSTALL requires Ubuntu - I guess could be edited but the x86-64 constraint will stop any trials on linux-ARM?

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Hi dukla2000,

It’s only for linux x86-64. There are some binary files like flash-tool/tools/update are x86-64 architecture.

Thanks.

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hello,
the directory and the file names have changed apparently, but the instructions here have not been updated, can @numbqq confirm that and eventually fix this problem ?
thank you

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Ok, I think I managed to use this tools, at my first try, and after I forced it to accept to run under ubuntu 17.10.
Here are the traces
assuming I’ve installed the app in ~/myapps/khadas-utils,

cd ~/myapps/khadas-utils/aml-flash-tool
sudo aml-burn-tool -i /home/raxy/project/khadas/ubuntu/build/images/khadas_vim_emmc.img

Rebooting the board ........[OK]
Unpacking image [OK]
Initializing ddr ........[OK]
Running u-boot ........[OK]
Create partitions [OK]
Writing device tree [OK]
Writing bootloader [OK]
Wiping  data partition [OK]
Wiping  cache partition [OK]
Writing logo partition [OK]
Writing rootfs partition [OK]
Do you want to reset the board? y/n [n]? y
Resetting board [OK]

Done !

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I seem to get:
indent preformatted text by 4 spaces
Installing Amlogic flash-tool…
cat: /etc/lsb-release: No such file or directory

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Check out this video, maybe you’ve missed a step somewhere or mis-typed something.

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Hello EmattpoYouRebooted,

What’s your host PC OS?

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My host PC OS is Chrome OS, on Developer Mode with Linux apps on.

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Not tested on Chrome OS, maybe not supported.

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Well, I might be the first one to test it! All I am doing is burning Ubuntu 18.10 onto a usb drive to put it into my Chromebook so I can have a better Linux computer!

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can this tool totally erase and reformat all the content of the EMMC before burning any official img provided by khadas on its firmare webpage ?
thanks!

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Hello ravelo,

Seems not supported. You can use windows burning toool to erase the eMMC.

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I can confirm utils works fine with Ubuntu-18.04.3-LTS as well :slight_smile: