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ext4 rootfs image and copy the contents onto the SD card (be sure to be root to do that). In the unpacked directory (with the " flashall.sh" script) run the following commands to prepare the SD card.

Download and unpack the Edison OS image from the Software Downloads section of the community (/docs/DOC-23242 Edison - Software Downloads Intel® Edison Boards and Compute Modules - Software Downloads).

If you only have a Windows system, then easiest approach would be to prepare a bootable USB stick with GParted Live USB image (see instructions on their website on how to do that).

On your desktop computer with Linux installed, using GParted ( ), format your SD card using ext4 filesystem.

You need to have a SD card or USB stick formatted with ext4 file system to store your root file system (do not use FAT/FAT32 for that). The article assumes certain level of familiarity with Linux and file systems. For now, we are not able to boot a kernel from an external storage.

The kernel and bootloader remain on the local eMMC.

This article describes a way to boot an Edison board with the Root Filesystem on an external storage (SD card or USB stick). Thank you Aleksandr for adapting this guide, and I hope those of you who are interested find it useful as well.

Let me know if there are any typos or technical issues it has been gone through pretty extensively, but there's always a chance an error still lives. It was adapted from some internal projects we were playing around with, and we'd like to share it with the community. The following is a guide that was written by AlexT_Intel during the time we were working on release 2 at Intel.