Flashing from Linux

[Guest rossburton]

Today I flashed my Vega to 1.04 from Linux without any use of Windows at all.

To do this you need the Linux binary of nvflash, which is part of the linux4tegra download available at http://developer.nvidia.com/tegra/downloads. Then take the 1.04 update .exe and unzip it (it's a standard self-extracting zip) and read lvds.bat, this is the updater script that the update runs. In it you'll see the nvflash line that you need to run. Fiddle the paths and construct the correct invocation of nvflash for you, and voila.

$ sudo LD_LIBRARY_PATH=../linux4tegra/nvflash/ ../linux4tegra/nvflash/nvflash --bct flash.bct --setbct --bl bootloader.bin --configfile flash.cfg --odmdata 0x000c0075 --create --go 

Nvflash started

rcm version 0X20001

System Information:

chip name: t20

chip id: 0x20 major: 1 minor: 3

chip sku: 0x8

chip uid: 0x1714404643e0a1d7

macrovision: disabled

hdcp: enabled

sbk burned: false

dk burned: false

boot device: nand

operating mode: 3

device config strap: 0

device config fuse: 0

sdram config strap: 0


sending file: flash.bct

- 4080/4080 bytes sent

flash.bct sent successfully

odm data: 0xc0075

downloading bootloader -- load address: 0x108000 entry point: 0x108000

sending file: bootloader.bin

| 937416/937416 bytes sent

bootloader.bin sent successfully

waiting for bootloader to initialize

bootloader downloaded successfully

setting device: 1 0

creating partition: BCT

creating partition: PT

creating partition: EBT

creating partition: MSC

creating partition: SOS

creating partition: LNX

creating partition: APP

creating partition: CAC

creating partition: USP

creating partition: UDA

Formatting partition 2 BCT please wait.. done!

Formatting partition 3 PT please wait.. done!

Formatting partition 4 EBT please wait.. done!

Formatting partition 5 MSC please wait.. done!

Formatting partition 6 SOS please wait.. done!

Formatting partition 7 LNX please wait.. done!

Formatting partition 8 APP please wait.. done!

Formatting partition 9 CAC please wait.. done!

Formatting partition 10 USP please wait.. done!

Formatting partition 11 UDA please wait.. done!

done!

sending file: bootloader.bin

| 937416/937416 bytes sent

bootloader.bin sent successfully

sending file: recovery.img

- 4487168/4487168 bytes sent

recovery.img sent successfully

sending file: boot.img

- 4253696/4253696 bytes sent

boot.img sent successfully

sending file: system.img

\ 114905472/114905472 bytes sent

system.img sent successfully

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(using LD_LIBRARY_PATH is required to if you want to run nvflash without moving it and it's dependent libraries to the system search paths)

[Guest paulsmith]

Today I flashed my Vega to 1.04 from Linux without any use of Windows at all.

To do this you need the Linux binary of nvflash, which is part of the linux4tegra download available at http://developer.nvidia.com/tegra/downloads.

Lovely - thanks for the feedback.

Which version of linux4tegra did you use? There are currently three versions on the url you supplied.

Linux For Tegra (L4T) Release (kernel 2.6.32; git tag tegra-10.9.3)

Linux For Tegra (L4T) Release (kernel 2.6.32; git tag tegra-10.8.2)

Linux For Tegra (L4T) Release (kernel 2.6.32; git tag tegra-10.7.2)

[Guest rossburton]

Lovely - thanks for the feedback.

Which version of linux4tegra did you use? There are currently three versions on the url you supplied.

Linux For Tegra (L4T) Release (kernel 2.6.32; git tag tegra-10.9.3)

Linux For Tegra (L4T) Release (kernel 2.6.32; git tag tegra-10.8.2)

Linux For Tegra (L4T) Release (kernel 2.6.32; git tag tegra-10.7.2)

The latest, -10.9.3. As I'm only using the flasher I doubt it matters.

[Guest dukla2000]

Today I flashed my Vega to 1.04 from Linux without any use of Windows at all.

Good to know, cheers for the heads-up. (Nothing from micro$oft in my house!)

[Guest 5c00ter]

Excellent stuff. :P

[Guest mycroft72]

Thanks, works sweetly...

:)

[Guest RielN]

Had to copy all .so files from the nvflash dir to /usr/lib/ to get it working.

[Guest Teo`]

Thanks! :D

This should be made sticky!