pcDuino8 Uno doesn’t have the onboard storage. Before use it, we need to first create a bootable SD card. In this tutorial, we explain how to create a bootable SD on MAC.

With the help of an USB SD card reader, insert the SD card to the USB port of the MAC,

List /dev/disk* before and after the SD card is inserted:
We can see that the SD card is disk2 and disk2s1. Unmount disk2:

We can use dd command to make the SD card:

Jingfengs-MacBook-Pro:Downloads jingfengliu$ ls *.img

pcduino8_ubuntu14.04_20160102_preinstalled_opencv2.4.11.img

Jingfengs-MacBook-Pro:Downloads jingfengliu$ sudo dd if=pcduino8_ubuntu14.04_20160102_preinstalled_opencv2.4.11.img of=/dev/disk2 bs=1m

2472+0 records in

2472+0 records out

2592079872 bytes transferred in 553.075039 secs (4686669 bytes/sec)