Cubieboard2 NAND install

Cubieboard2 NAND install

I followed the bring up instruction that most of cubieboard site describes, and I could boot cubian from SD card. However, when I tried to install the boot image to NAND, I was not able to boot the system successfully. Although cubian-nandinstall was completed without any errors, it did not boot without SD card. It took for a while that I found out the cubian-nandinstall message saying "*** Read http://tinyurl.com/qyee5k2, if the board won't boot from NAND ***". I followed the link, and this is the instruction how to solve the issue. Basically, it needs to burn NAND with lubuntu and then burn it again with cubian-nandinstall.

1. Burn NAND with lubuntu image using USB OTG
   Download and extract PhoenixSuit. (My host is Windows, so I used PhoenixSuit instead of LiveSuit.)

   http://dl.cubieboard.org/software/tools/livesuit/PhoenixSuit1.0.7.rar

   Hold FEL button of the cubieboard2 and connect the USB OTG port to PC. While the driver installation, the FEL button needs to be pressed. If driver is not found, manually install the driver under the extracted PhoenixSuite driver folder.
   
   Download and extract lubuntu desktop image. 

   http://docs.cubieboard.org/tutorials/a20-cubieboard_lubuntu_desktop_releases

   Launch PhoenixSuit.exe and press "Firmware" tab. Select the img file downloaded above and press "Upgrade". Before writing the image, unplug and plug back in the USB cable by pressing FEL button.
   
   When it is completed successfully, unplug the USB cable. The next step is to prepare for the cubian installed SD card.
   
   
2. Prepare for SD card with cubian
   This is done easily using "ImageWriter" which can be downloaded from following link.

   https://launchpad.net/win32-image-writer

   Download cubian SD card image file from the link below and unzip the file.
   

   http://cubian.org/downloads/
   

   Connect SD card to PC and launch "ImageWriter". Make sure it detects the SD card.
   Select the image file and press "Copy" to start writing the image to SD card.
   
   
3. Burn NAND with cubian-nandinstall
   Insert the SD card to cubieboard2 and  and boot the board. Once system boots successfully, all you need to do is run a command which is "cubian-nandinstall".
   If the command is not available, you need to install the tool.

   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install cubian-nandinstall
   sudo cubian-nandinstall

   It will take for a while to finish it and after it is done, it asks to power off the system.
   Select "Yes" and power off the board. When you boot next time, remove the SD card and it should boot from NAND.
   

Hardware:
    Cubieboard2
    MicroSD Card
   
Summary:


Reference:     
http://cubian.org/2014/06/30/troubleshooting-nandinstall-on-a20/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeULfhdX1CY