Booting Panda Board with UBUNTU

To booting Panda Board with Ubuntu OS. Below is the instruction set to follow
Requirements:
1. Download  binary of UBUNTU OS
2. 8GB SD card
3. UBUNTU machine to facilitates flashing of UBUNTU binary on SDCARD
4. DVI-VGA or HDMI -VGA display cable
5. In case willing to start execution on boot prompt;
      A) USB to serial cable needed.
      B) minicom in UBUNTU PC

Commands to execute to achieve this:
1. Connect SD card with UBUNTU machine
2. Check if it is mounted  use command
    $ df -u
    $ ls -l /dev/sdxx     - x- A,B,C,
                                     x - 0,1,2 etc
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Check the enumerated ports using command “df”, port should be like /dev/sd*1( sda1 may be sdb1, sdb2 , sdc1, sdc2)

Example output should be like below

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vikram@vikram:~/Desktop/omap$ df

Filesystem     1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on

/dev/sda6      235660072 11186420 212502788   6% /

udev             1991592  1894400     97192  96% /dev

tmpfs             799564      828    798736   1% /run

none                5120        0      5120   0% /run/lock

none             1998908      156   1998752   1% /run/shm

/dev/sda1      241061564   957748 227858560   1% /media/3dc415af-0f2c-4687-9a05-dbe7d0246ec9

/dev/sda1      241061564   957748 227858560   1% /home/vikram/phone

/dev/sdb1        3863040   553708   3309332  15% /media/D0B8-D3A5

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if sdcard partison are mounted; if yes unmount then
 use command
$ umount  /dev/sdxx

3. Write UBUNTU binary on SD card using below command it will a "raw data write"
Go to directory where you kept binary in .gz format and execute  below command:
zcat ./ubuntu-12.04-preinstalled-desktop-armhf+omap4.img.gz |sudo dd bs=4M of=/dev/sdb 

4. run command to sync
    $ sudo sync

5. Takeout card from Ubuntu/LINUX PC and insert in Panda Board SD Card slot, and power up the board.


Looking into Panda Board boot Prompt: 
1.       Install “minicom” in Linux environment 
2.        Connect “DB-9 to USB converter( serial cable) 
A)     DB-9 on Panda Board 
B)      USB on Linux based PC 
C)      Check the enumerated UBS port it should be like /dev/ttyUSB* 
D)     Enumerated port can be check using command 
-          Sudo tail –f /log/syslog 
-          Or using else  “dmesg” command 
3.       Execute Minicom with enumerated port( /dev/ttyUSB*) with baud rate 115200
        Sudo minicom –D /dev/ttyUSB* -b 115200  
You will be able to see Panda board boot prompt in connected Linux machine