SDCreate "Unknown or missing variable at 130"

I’m trying to produce a RISC OS img file for the PandaBoard using SDCreate. After dragging the 3 required files into the window and clicking on run,I see “Unknown or missing variable at 130” – this is on RO4.02 in VRPC and on RO4.39 on a real RiscPC. On RISC OS 5 in RPCemu, I don’t see that error; the process runs, presumably to completion, but no img file is produced. I’m baffled. Help!

bq.On RISC OS 5 in RPCemu, I don’t see that error; the process runs, presumably to completion, but no img file is produced. I’m baffled.

SDCreate is designed to generate an image and push it to an SD device.
Unfortunately on RPCEmu it can’t access any device of the type it needs – I’m not sure why it doesn’t give an appropriate error. I never had any success in building that way.¹

I’d be inclined to clone the Linux version SD card you got with the Panda and then using an SD card reader on the PC edit the startup config file to point to the riscos image file instead of the linux boot and drop in the omap3 riscos rom.

That method worked for me with a beagle-xm

¹ I keep meaning to spend time creating something that does work from scratch

Ahem! OMAP4 ROM not OMAP3

Ahem! OMAP4 ROM not OMAP3

oh, boll… Panda – Pandora too damn close.
The general principle is right though. For general information, the SDCreate application produces an image in scrap, never does anything with it and then deletes it when you cancel any error prompt. It would be nicer if it made an image file in the current directory ready for writing to an SD

It would be nicer if it made an image file in the current directory ready for writing to an SD

Indeed! The documentation doesn’t trouble itself to tell the user where the image file is written, or that it is deleted immediately on closing the Task window. Since my original posting, I have discovered that the prog. works on RO5 in RPCemu – at least as far as writing the img.

SDCreate is designed to generate an image and push it to an SD device.

Perhaps it’s better to say, “SDCreate is designed to generate an image and/or push an image to an SD device.” – for these are two independent processes and one can have one without the other.