You will need a terminal interface like Tera Term or Pu TTY to interface to the UART to boot the VMK180 board. Please download your choice before getting started.
The next step is to down the the PetaLinux BSP at from the Linux Prebuilt Images wiki page . The PetaLinux BSP will give you a pre-build image that will allow you to boot Linux and interact via a terminal to run some examples.
For the PetaLinux BSP Prebuilt image go to the xilinx-vmk180-2020.2/prebuilt/images directory. There are 3 files to copy to the SD card.
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BOOT.BIN
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boot.scr
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image.ub
Copy these files to the SD card.
The SD card needs to be partitioned into 2 sections and the first 3 files go on the fat32 partition and the rootfs.cpio goes on the ext4 parition. Since this is a .cpio compressed file and un-compressing the file directly to the SD card is recommended. Once you have mounted the SD card and changed to that directory the command to un-compress the file is
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cpio -idv -V <path to file>/rootfs.cpio
You might need to do this with a sudo or sudo cpio -idv -V <path to file>/rootfs.cpio
For either method once this is done put the SD card into the Versal uSD card slot in the Board Setup Diagram.