This will overwrite your eMMC! Be Ware!

First you'll need some files.

http://dn.odroid.com/Android_Alpha_4.0.2/x/
or
http://www.mdrjr.net/odroid/mirror/dn.odroid.com/Android_Alpha_4.0.2/x/

And the latest release of Ubuntu for ODROID-X available at:
http://odroid.foros-phpbb.com/t2416-linaro-ubuntu-1211-for-odroid-x
or
http://dn.odroid.com/Ubuntu_X/20130128/

Needed tools:
eMMC card
SDCard
A Computer running Linux

1. Write the eMMC Android Installer to a SDCARD.
2. Setup ODROID-X board to boot of SD (Jumper).
3. Make sure that the eMMC installer SDCARD and eMMC are connected.
4. Turn on the board. Wait at least 15mins for the fully flash.
5. After waiting 15 minutes, power off the board, remove the sdcard set the jumper to eMMC boot!
6. Check if booted onto Android, if yes. Continue, otherwise double check the first five steps!
7. Write the Ubuntu image to the SDCARD!
8. Change the jumper to SD boot and boot up with your new SDCARD with Ubuntu on it.
9. Check if Ubuntu booted! If so, continue, otherwise double check steps above.
10. Power off the board, reconnect the SDCard to your PC and copy the Ubuntu image (with .xz extension, the compressed one to your sdcard rootfs partition)
11. Connect the eMMC with Android as well the SdCard with Ubuntu, set the jumper to SDCard boot.
12. Boot on your Ubuntu, Open a Terminal and navigate to where you saved your Ubuntu img.xz
13. Now figure out wheres your eMMC. Type
ls /dev/mmcblk*
Your eMMC will be the device with with boot0/boot1 on it as well p1/p2/p3/p4 as well. We'll assume that is mmcblk0! YOU MUST CHECK!

14. On the folder that your Ubuntu img.xz is type: xzcat odroidx_20130128-linaro-ubuntu-desktop_SD_with_HDMI.img.xz | dd of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=4M

15. Type sync
16. poweroff
17. Remove SDcard and set the jumper to eMMC boot.

18. Enjoy.


I'll probably refine this soon ;( Sorry for too much steps.

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!

mdrjr wrote:
13. Now figure out wheres your eMMC. Type
ls /dev/mmcblk*
Your eMMC will be the device with with boot0/boot1 on it as well p1/p2/p3/p4 as well. We'll assume that is mmcblk1! YOU MUST CHECK!

14. On the folder that your Ubuntu img.xz is type: xzcat odroidx_20130128-linaro-ubuntu-desktop_SD_with_HDMI.img.xz | dd of=/dev/mmcblk1 bs=4M

Hey mdrjr,

Thank you for the write yup!

I'm just having one snag...

Starting with step 13. I typed "ls /dev/mmcblk*"

On my system, it seems that the eMMC is on mmcblk0 (because the boot0/boot1 and p1/p2/p3/p4 are all on mmcblk0).

I then typed:
"xzcat odroidx_20130128-linaro-ubuntu-desktop_SD_with_HDMI.img.xz | dd of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=4M"

It gives me this response:
"dd: opening '/dev/mmcblk0': Permission denied

Any thoughts? I'm guessing I may need to repair permissions? I'm not sure how I can do that within Ubuntu (booting up from the SD card).

Thank you so much!

headhoncho wrote:"xzcat odroidx_20130128-linaro-ubuntu-desktop_SD_with_HDMI.img.xz | dd of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=4M"

You need to be running the dd as root. Either 'sudo su -' before running the entire command, or use 'sudo dd' in the above line.
Alternatively:

Code:


xzcat odroidx_20130128-linaro-ubuntu-desktop_SD_with_HDMI.img.xz | sudo tee /dev/mmcblk0 > /dev/null


You'll often see people saying to do things like:

Code:


echo blah blah > output_file


but a regular user might not have access to output_file. Even doing

Code:


sudo echo blah blah > output_file


won't work because the output redirection part is being done in the current shell, and not by the root user. That's why writing to a file as the root user needs to use this idiom instead:

Code:


echo blah blah | sudo tee output_file
# OR
echo blah blah | sudo tee output_file >/dev/null


The second version there stops "blah blah" from being echoed on the terminal, which might be desirable in same cases (such as with the xzcat command above). The "tee" command acts like a literal "T" and splits the output, with one output going to the standard output, while the other one goes to the file that you give it as a parameter. Simple, really, and very useful in cases like this when regular shell redirection isn't working for you...

If I use the X2 versions of Android and Ubuntu, of course?

Thank you mdrjr!

Your instructions worked spot on!!!

magnum_pi wrote:If I use the X2 versions of Android and Ubuntu, of course?

Yep

Here the device is mmcblk0
device is flashing :-)

Tommy.Z wrote:Here the device is mmcblk0
device is flashing :-)

Updated the OP to match the more frequent mmcblk0, but remember it can be mmcblk1 as well. That's why I'm asking for checks

Working perfect.
Thanks