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3. Set the switches on the boot source selector as follows:

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4. Serial connection

Connect your micro USB cable to your device.

45. Connect the Male to Male USB-A cable to the OTG port on your device.

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Identify the OTG port
It’s the upper USB port. This holds true of all our i.MX8 based boards.

  • Make sure you can detect the USB = NXP Semiconductors in the usb devices list.

56. Use the following commands for loading the U-Boot:

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The following is an example for i.MX8M-Plus Step-by-step:

1. Once you cloned built the mfgtools project, run the following to install the U-Boot binaries

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2. Connect your micro USB cable to your device.

3. Connect the USB Male to Male USB-A cable to the UPPER USB OTG port on your device.

  • Make sure you can detect the USB = NXP Semiconductors in the usb devices list with the exact same vendor ID as shown in the below figure:

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Then, you should be able to see the following:

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At this point U-Boot has been loaded to RAM and is running.