[Raspberry Pi General] -CALIBAN666-:
HOW TO MAKE SD CARD PARTITIONS EASY AND SAFE

HOW TO MAKE SD CARD/USB STICK ABLE TO BOOT MY RASPI ???

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THATS ONLY 2 EXAMPLES FROM HOW I HAVE DONE IT WITH OPENELEC

ON LINUX MINT 32bit+1gb SD CARD

Windows 8.1 64bit and 1gb SD CARD

AND MINITOOL PARTITION WIZARD.

AND Win32DiskImager

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HOW TO MAKE SD CARD PARTITIONS:

Under Windows the following ingredients are required:

a properly formatted SD card

the distribution archive

a brain

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Formatting the SD card

A properly formatted SD card for OpenELEC requires to have two partition on it whereas one of them is formated with an ext4 filesystem. This requires a third party tool like the MiniTool® Partition Wizard. It happens that MiniTool is offering a Home Edition which is free for home use only.

MiniTool® Partition Wizard

The first step is deleting all partitions and then create the first one afterwards.

The original script is creating a FAT32 partition occupying 16 cylinders resulting in approx. 130 MB. So did I and named it “System”. In addition I assigned drive letter S: to it (the assigned drive letter will be used later).

On the left side of the Partition Wizard you can follow the actions that will be performed upon apply. Next the ext4 partition is created and named “Storage” consuming the remaining space on the card. You will receive a warning stating that Windows will only show the very first partition on a removable media. Acceptable in our case.

The new partition layout now should look similar to this:

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At this point the modifications can be applied (via the button “Apply” in the upper left) and in a last step the first partition will be marked as “Active” (right-click over the partition; Modify -> Set Active).

Copying OpenELEC to the SD card

The distribution comes as compressed tar archive which needs to be extracted first (7zip will do this job). At the end you should have a folder OpenELEC-RPi.arm-3.2.3 containing the distribution. Assuming that you have assigned drive letter S: to the SD card the following sequence will copy the required files to the card:

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cd OpenELEC-RPi.arm-3.2.3

copy target\KERNEL S:\kernel.img

copy target\SYSTEM S:\

copy 3rdparty\bootloader\*.* S:\

copy openelec.ico S:\

copy README.md S:\

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Last but not least you need to create a file ‘cmdline.txt’ on the SD card with the following content:

boot=/dev/mmcblk0p1 disk=/dev/mmcblk0p2 console=ttyAMA0,115200 kgdboc=ttyAMA0,115200 console=tty1 ssh

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That’s it. Insert the SD card into your Raspi and power it on. The Raspberry will boot OpenELEC!!!!

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THE WINDOWS METHOD IS MUCH EASIER,THE ONLY THING YOU NEED IS A FRESH ---- FAT ----

FORMATTED SD CARD,A RASPBERRY OS AS IMAGE FILE,A PC + Win32diskImager.

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AFTER INSTALL,BLA;BLA FROM DISKIMAGER OPEN IT AND GO TO BROWSE,SEARCH YOUR IMG.

AND ENABLE IT BY OK,NOW PUT THE PATH TO SD CARD IN SECOND ROW AND PRESS OK,IT

MIGHT BE WARNING YOU THAT SOME CARDS ARE GOING TO HEAVEN BY DOING THIS,BUT

NO FEAR,I HAVE DONE IT MORE THAN 100 TIMES WITH ONE CARD AND NEVER HAD A PROBLEM!!!!

JUST PRESS OK AND WAIT TILL YOUR CARD IS READY -1-2 min.,THATS IT!!!!!!

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HERE SOME TIPPS+LINKS TO VERY GOOD WINDOWS TOOLS TO CREATE BOOTABLE USB STICKS

SD CARDS FOR INSTALLING LINUX/WINDOWS/LIVE DISTRO"S!!!!!

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win32diskimager - http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/

Fedora ARM Installer - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi

Universal USB Installer - http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/

USB Image Tool - http://www.alexpage.de/usb-image-tool/

Linux Live USB Creator - http://www.linuxliveusb.com/

UNetbootin - http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

USB Pendrive Linux - http://www.pendrivelinux.com/

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MORE IS COMING HAVE A NICE DAY!!!!! :laugh​