Steps to build and flash Yocto Image on Beaglebone black

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Step1: Create a folder for Yocto source code:
$ mkdir beagblebone_yocto && cd beagblebone_yocto

 Step2: Clone the poky source code:
$ git clone -b thud git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky.git

Step3: Run the environment script to setup the Yocto Environment and create build directory
$ source poky/oe-init-build-env build

Step4: Set the MACHINE variable to 'beaglebone-yocto'
$ echo 'MACHINE = "beaglebone-yocto"' > conf/local.conf

Step5: Build the core-image-minimal image
$ bitbake core-image-minimal

After a few hours, you will find the images will be present in beaglebone_yocto/build/tmp/deploy/images/beaglebone-yocto folder

Step6: Take memory card and make two partitions using gparted:
Partition1 : Size 100 MB, fat16 (boot flag)
Partition2: Size > 2GB , ext4

Step7: Copy the files in the required partition.
$ cd beaglebone_yocto/build/tmp/deploy/images/beaglebone-yocto 
$ cp MLO-beaglebone-yocto /media/jamal/boot/MLO
$ cp u-boot.img /media/jamal/boot/u-boot.img
$ sudo tar -xf core-image-minimal-beaglebone-yocto.tar.bz2 -C /media/jamal/rootfs

Step8: Connect the Micro SD Card to the beaglebone black and to boot from MicroSD press the User Button(S2) While applying power. 

Step9: Connect the Serial cable at J1 Header for accessing Linux



Comments

  1. Munish Bhardwaj11 April 2019 at 11:13

    Great

    Am also working on beaglebon black .

    Have you used gstreamer for videos streaming ?

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    1. Embedded Guru11 April 2019 at 19:19

      Yes, I have used it on some other project. Not on this

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  2. David29 September 2019 at 22:09

    Hi,
    I use Yocto to create image and boot beaglebone green wireless. like this introdctuion,
    After flash process, board turn down, but it's still old image. Please help thank in advance.

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  3. SAGAR8 March 2021 at 05:12

    hi
    i am working on yocto for beaglebone black,image is also build but that image is not boot in the my beagelbone. please can you help me ,i am following the same steps for image building.

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