Altera SoC Embedded Design Suite - Manual (Page 200)

Warning: The users of this tool need administrative or root access to their computer to use this tool to
write to physical SD cards. These rights are not required when only working with disk image files. Please
contact the IT department if you do not have the proper rights on your PC.
Tool Options
The utility is a command line program. The table describes all the command line options; and the figure
shows the
--help
output from the tool.
Table 11-1: Command Line Options
Command line Argument Required? Description
-p filename Required Specifies Preloader file to write
-b filename Required Specifies Bootloader file to write
-a write Required Specifies action to take. Only "write" action
is supported. Example: "-a write"
disk_file Required(unless -d option is
used)
Specifies disk image file or physical disk to
write to. A disk image file is a file that
contains all the data for a storage volume
including the partition table. This can be
written to a physical disk later with another
tool. For physical disks in Linux, just
specify the device file. For example: /dev/
mmcblk0 For physical disks in Windows,
specify the physical drive path such as \\.\
physicaldrive2 or use the drive letter
option(-d) to specify a drive letter. The
drive letter option is the easiest method in
Windows
-d Optional specify disk drive letter to write to.
Example: "-d E". When using this option,
the disk_file option cannot be specified.
-h Optional Displays help message and exits
--version Optional Displays script version number and exits
11-2 Tool Options
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