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The first thing to do is obviously to get a ROM image. If you want to build one yourself, view the instructions on this page. If you want to use a prebuilt ROM image, you can download one from this page.
You may also want to download the HardDisk4 archive which contains the RISC OS 5 !Boot sequence and other utilities. Note that there are two versions available – a self-extracting version and a tar/bz2 version. Only choose the tar/bz2 version if you have a working RISC OS machine which you can use to extract the archive onto a USB device!
(Note: To prepare a Linux/RISC OS dual boot, follow these instructions.)
Attempting to prepare an SD card manually can often result in failure, either due to user error or operating system quirks. The easiest way to solve this problem is to use the SDCreate utility, a copy of which is supplied with every OMAP3 ROM image distributed by ROOL. Even if you don’t have a RISC OS machine on which to run SDCreate, you’ll still want a copy of the app, as it contains a description of how SD cards are prepared, and copies of the required U-Boot scripts.
Before preparing your SD card, you may need to track down some extra files/software:
The SDCreate main window is split into two sections – ‘Create image’ and ‘Write image’. Depending on which options are selected the ‘Run’ button at the bottom may or may not be greyed out.
WARNING
The code which writes images to SD cards hasn’t received thorough testing, and doesn’t ask for confirmation before beginning the write operation. So if you’ve selected the wrong drive you will lose all your data on that drive, and if you try interacting with the drive while the write is occuring then it will likely result in a corrupt image.
WARNING
If you want to create an image, and save it as a file:
If you want to create an image, and write it straight out to a card:
If you want to write an existing SD image to an SD card:
That’s it! If it all went well, you should now have a working SD card/image for use with your OMAP3 machine.
If you’re able to use SDCreate to create an image file, but are unable to use it to actually write the image to a card, then you can use any number of Windows/Linux/Mac utilities to do the job for you:
If you’re unable or unwilling to use SDCreate to create an image for you, then you can always create one manually. See the SDCreate !Help file for information about the SD card structure and how booting works, or alternatively this archived copy of an earlier version of this page, which contains information about a variety of different boot methods.
The OMAP3 port of RISC OS doesn’t yet contain a suitable driver to allow RISC OS to interact with the SD card slot. So your !Boot sequence must be placed on a USB drive instead. Here’s a brief guide of how to set up the drive:
At the moment the only way to get around this problem is to get your OMAP3 machine (running RISC OS) to set up the boot sequence itself. Unfortunately a couple of bugs and limitations in RISC OS mean that this is currently slightly trickier than it could be, but the following should save you some time!
desktop
fd6
or taskexec
and press EnterHardDisc4/util
). . . I have never formatted anything let alone a memory stick, so what settings should I use?Choose ‘A’ (no more changes) when it asks you about adding entries to the defect list. Otherwise, the default settings should work just fine.