Prepare microSD card to install QNX IFS

You can manually install QNX OS on the board. A FAT32-formatted microSD card is required. Using the microSD card is the easiest way to transfer images from your host computer to the eMMC on the board.

Provided with your BSP is a prebuilt QNX IFS binariy that you can use. Alternatively, if you make modifications to the buildfile, you can rebuild the QNX IFS. For information about building your BSP, see Build the BSP in this chapter.

Please use the following steps to copy the QNX IFS image to your microSD card:

1. Insert your microSD card into your host computer.
2. Navigate to the $BSP_ROOT_DIR/images directory and open a terminal (Linux) or Command Prompt window (Windows).
3. In your terminal (Linux) or Command Prompt window (Windows), copy the file (ifs-imx8qm-apalis.bin) to the microSD card (SD_location_of_card).
   For example, on Windows where G: is the location of the SD_location_of_card:

   $ cd %BSP_ROOT_DIR%/images
   $ copy ifs-imx8qm-apalis.bin G:\ifs-imx8qm-apalis.bin
                       

   For example on Linux host where /media/074B-DAC7 is the mountpoint for microSD card:

   $ mount /dev/sda1 /media/074B-DAC7
   $ cd $BSP_ROOT_DIR/images
   $ cp ifs-imx8qm-apalis.bin /media/074B-DAC7/ifs-imx8qm-apalis.bin
                       

4. Eject the microSD card (Windows), or unmount and then eject (Linux) the microSD card from your host machine.

Your microSD card is now ready to manually install QNX OS.