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News => New Product Ideas => Topic started by: TomH on September 08, 2025, 08:37:16 PM

Title: SAM9-L9260 board / Boot to an SD card
Post by: TomH on September 08, 2025, 08:37:16 PM
Hello,
I recenty got an Olimex SAM9_L9260 board.  After connecting to a 5V/3A power supply, connecting to a null modem, Hyperterminal, I got the board to boot and was able to login.

Now my questions are:
1. The box the board came in is empty.  No quick starting quide.  How do I format / boot to an OS on my SD card?  I tried to format a 128 MB SD card using Rufus and put Ubuntu 22.04 on it.  No go.

2.  Is / Are there any jumper(s) I can set so it will boot to SD/MMC card.  I see this in the SAM9_L9260 file:
Is the SD/MMC card supported?
A: The SD/MMC card is fully supported, including detection of card insertion/removal and
write lock

3. I also saw this in the PDF file.  Where is the NANDF_E and DF_E jumpers are located?
A: Make sure that NANDF_E jumper is not connected and DF_E jumer is connected. If the
dataflash has been correctly programmed, the board should start up

4.  I got this from https://www.olimex.com/wiki/SAM9-L9260

git clone -b olimex https://github.com/OLIMEX/at91bootstrap.git

and when I tried to build it using:
 make sam9_l9260_uboot_defconfig

this does not work.

What's the latest instruction?

Title: Re: SAM9-L9260 board / Boot to an SD card
Post by: LubOlimex on September 09, 2025, 10:57:07 AM
As you noticed by default SAM9-L9260 comes prepared with Linux. This Linux image and sources can be found in this this ISO - mount it and explore the contents inside:

https://ftp.olimex.com/Obsolete_images/SAM9-L9260/SAM9-L9260_Rev.D.iso

Notice that SAM9-L9260 is not a personal computer, it will not boot Ubuntu 22.04 from a flash drive.