Open Solo SD Card Image.7z

nvpowerdoc · Apr 13, 2018

I'm looking for a little assistance in finding the "Open Solo SD Card Image.7z" zip file on Github Release Attachments.

It contains the SD Card Images to perform Manual installation of Open Solo 3.0.0. for the Controller and Solo.

I've browsed around the OpenSolo Repository on Github, and I guess I just don't know where to find this file that is referenced in this post: OpenSolo/documentation

Pedals2Paddles · Apr 13, 2018

As stated in the instructions, they're on the release page: Open Solo 3.0.0 Release

nvpowerdoc · Apr 13, 2018

Pedals2Paddles said:
As stated in the instructions, they're on the release page: Open Solo 3.0.0 Release

Thanks! For whatever reason I could not find THAT particular page. Read through so much other documentation and just could not end up on the page you're pointing me too. I appreciate that.

Update: OK, read more on the Open Solo Release Page. I think all the rest of my answers are there (and will resolve the ArduCopter F/W versioning that I was unclear on. Thanks again!

AOtarolaR · Dec 25, 2018

Hi there!
I am trying to do Manual SD Card Image Install but the Win32DiskImager and other programs tell me that there´s not enough space en the SD card (extracted from the copter)... The Open Solo 3.0.0 Copter SD Image was extracted with 7z.

what could it be?

nvpowerdoc · Jan 3, 2019

The file is a 7+ GB image. The SD card or download needs to be copied to at least an 8GB capacity device.

AOtarolaR · Jan 3, 2019

nvpowerdoc said:
The file is a 7+ GB image. The SD card or download needs to be copied to at least an 8GB capacity device.

yeap... i know that, and the "original" sd card on the copter is an 8GB card, and if you do the upgrade thru Solex there´s no capacity issues... but if you try to do it "manually" there is this problem (at least in my case, i tried on win10 and win7)...
I had to use a 16GB micro SD card to do the install manually (on the copter, the controller image fits perfectly on an 8GB card).

Mike Boland · Jan 23, 2019

Found the same issue with the Copter files. They will not burn onto the original 8Gb SD card. The open Solo image is actually 8.04Gb in Size.
As the card has only 7.95Gb free that leaves a shortfall of 87.03Mb.

So how does Solex, or in my case, SidePilot manage to do that?
The post install script in SidePilot fails which is why I am trying to do it manually.

Pedals2Paddles · Jan 24, 2019

Solex and SidePilot are not burning SD card images. They're running installer scripts on the copter and controller that use an 80mb zip file.

I do not know why that card image is more than 8GB now. I created Open Solo those card images myself off the 8GB cards in my copter and controller in December 2017. I then wrote that image back to the SD cards several times to verify. Numerous other people have used them as well with no problems. Something happened to them, or to the application doing the burning in the last year to make them now all of a sudden be greater than 8GB. I get the same error now.

Mike Boland · Jan 24, 2019

Glad it's not just me

Could that also be causing the post install.sh file to fail?
I get a good upload to the copter, all seems to go well until it hits the post install.sh then fails.

Also, does the imx6 board care if it is talking to Pixhawk1 or a Cube?
I have tried both with the same result.

Pedals2Paddles · Jan 24, 2019

Mike Boland said:
Glad it's not just me
Could that also be causing the post install.sh file to fail?
I get a good upload to the copter, all seems to go well until it hits the post install.sh then fails.

Also, does the imx6 board care if it is talking to Pixhawk1 or a Cube?
I have tried both with the same result.

The installers through Solex and sidepilot are not using those images. Totally unrelated. If you're post install is failing, it means your copter or controller are not in the proper state to begin the install. Such as you factory reset first.

Mike Boland · Jan 24, 2019

I finally managed to squeeze the files onto the card by telling the SD software to only copy sectors with data.
Verify SD card said all was correct.
Put it back in the IMX6 and it all fired up OK.
I have another IMX6 to setup and will try to do as you suggested by doing a factory reset and going from there.

Pedals2Paddles · Jan 24, 2019

No, you should NOT do a factory reset first. Go through the instructions on the GitHub site. It explains this.

Pitot Bandito · Mar 17, 2019

OK, so I am trying the direct write to sd card method, and I've got the controller card in my PC, however, that card shows up as 4 separate drives ....Latest (E , Golden (F , SDHC (G, and SDHC (H.
Confused as to which drive I need to write the new image file to?? Or should I just format the card clean and then load the new image file?
Never seen this before on a single sd card!

Pedals2Paddles · Mar 17, 2019

Pitot Bandito said:
OK, so I am trying the direct write to sd card method, and I've got the controller card in my PC, however, that card shows up as 4 separate drives ....Latest (E , Golden (F , SDHC (G, and SDHC (H.
Confused as to which drive I need to write the new image file to?? Or should I just format the card clean and then load the new image file?
Never seen this before on a single sd card!

No, you should not do that. You should follow the instructions.

Pitot Bandito · Mar 17, 2019

Step 3 on the SD card instructions:
"Under device, make sure it is set to the SD card's drive letter on your PC. "

Sooooo....Which of the 4 drives listed on this card do I use????

Pitot Bandito · Mar 17, 2019

After some more digging, I have found some references in a few posts here to the partition labeled "Golden" as a recovery drive, so my best guess here would be the E (latest) drive, so that leaves the 2 partitions labeled SDHC, (G & H).
If anyone knows for sure, I'd really appreciate knowing which one to load the image file to, as I am not really a fan of playing "Russian Roulette"!

jimloss · Mar 18, 2019

Pitot Bandito said:
After some more digging, I have found some references in a few posts here to the partition labeled "Golden" as a recovery drive, so my best guess here would be the E (latest) drive, so that leaves the 2 partitions labeled SDHC, (G & H).
If anyone knows for sure, I'd really appreciate knowing which one to load the image file to, as I am not really a fan of playing "Russian Roulette"!

You can't write an image to a partition or volume - it is an SD card image, it puts the volumes and files on the SD card.

At any point, while the SD card is in your PC, cancel all messages about formatting disks.

Use Windows Disk Management to delete all 4 volumes on the SD card. Then follow the current procedure from the GitHub site.

Pedals2Paddles · Mar 18, 2019

You can probably just pick any one of them and it will work. The application is writing over the entire card, not just a partition. I don't know why you are seeing more than one partition, usually only one is visible to Windows. But it shouldn't matter.

Pitot Bandito · Mar 18, 2019

jimloss said:
You can't write an image to a partition or volume - it is an SD card image, it puts the volumes and files on the SD card.

At any point, while the SD card is in your PC, cancel all messages about formatting disks.

Use Windows Disk Management to delete all 4 volumes on the SD card. Then follow the current procedure from the GitHub site.

Thank you sir, that is exactly what I needed to know!