Copying files to the root of SD Card is a common way. SD card booting problem depends on a SW version installed on a board and a configuration of SD card files.
As the first step I recommend you to execute the following commands to check board version, firmware version and Linux version installed on a board:
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root@clanton:~# cat < /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/board_name Galileo root@clanton:~# cat < /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/board_version FAB-D root@clanton:~# cat < /sys/firmware/board_data/flash_version 0x01000400 root@clanton:~# uname -a Linux clanton 3.8.7-yocto-standard #1 Fri Oct 10 16:20:19 PDT 2014 i586 GNU/Linux root@clanton:~# |