{"id":10796,"date":"2015-10-13T09:15:27","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T16:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.digilentinc.com\/?p=10796"},"modified":"2022-02-03T14:17:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T22:17:19","slug":"booting-linux-on-the-zedboard-without-a-u-boot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/booting-linux-on-the-zedboard-without-a-u-boot\/","title":{"rendered":"Booting Linux on the ZedBoard without a U-Boot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Getting started with Linux on the ZedBoard<\/a> is usually fairly straightforward. Normally, you use the first stage boot loader (FSBL) to read files and then pass control to the U-Boot<\/a> boot loader.The boot loader does its thing and Linux boots. In the words of Instructables author\u00a0jameyhicks<\/a>, “U-Boot adds two capabilities to the boot process that the Xilinx FSBL does not have. (1) It reads files used at boot time from the SD Card instead of requiring them to be included in the boot.bin, and (2) it has a command line, in case you want to modify boot parameters at boot time.” But what if you don’t need either of those capabilities? Then you can boot Linux directly from the FSBL<\/a>, saving you time and reducing the number of files that need to be maintained.<\/p>\n

\"ZedBoard-obl-bg-600\"<\/p>\n

For this Instructable, you need a\u00a0ZedBoard<\/a>, an SD card, a Linux machine (or Linux VM or a Mac), a git client and the knowledge of how to use it, and the\u00a0Android NDK<\/a> version r9d or newer.<\/p>\n

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The ZedBoard and SD card.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Get everything together, then download Zynq-Boot. Make the bootbin file for the ZedBoard, bootbin.zedboard. Then create the sdcard.zedboard file. Copy the files to the ZedBoard, and then boot it.<\/p>\n

If you love Linux, this promises to be a great project. Let us know your thoughts on this project!<\/p>\n

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Why — and how — you’d boot Linux on a ZedBoard without U-Boot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,1563,4324],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[4464],"class_list":["post-10796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fpga","category-guide","category-research-rapid-prototyping"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/zedboard-booted.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":4464,"user_id":7,"is_guest":0,"slug":"amber_mear","display_name":"Amber Mear","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d0fc56ab4035f79884675bde2a948e84c1d14dd33b730b4c142dde6f1a962395?s=96&d=mm&r=g","1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":"","9":"","10":""}],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10796"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=10796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}