OK, so I think I got that figured out. Was not familiar with "seek", but am
now. So what about uEnv.txt ?


On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 4:52 PM, William Hermans <yyrk...@gmail.com> wrote:

> *done ;)*
>>
>> * dd if=MLO of=/dev/sdX count=1 seek=1 conv=notrunc bs=128k*
>> * dd if=u-boot.img of=/dev/sdX count=2 seek=1 conv=notrunc bs=384k*
>>
>> * only works on omap4+ bootrom's (so the old omap34xx/omap36xx family is
>> out)*
>>
>> * I'm close to rolling out a new testing image that uses this feature..*
>> * The flasher gets more interesting as i need to remember to include the*
>> * MLO/u-boot.img somewhere in the ext4 partition for later flashing..*
>
>
> Wait a minute, is this creating two partitions that are raw contents of
> each file ? Not sure what this is doing actually seems more like you're
> dumping the raw content of each file onto the same partition. But I've
> actually never seen dd used this way.
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Robert Nelson <robertcnel...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 6:45 PM, William Hermans <yyrk...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> How would you guys feel about nuking that fat16 "boot" partition. ;)
>> >
>> >
>> > Quite honestly Robert. It's been around since I first got my A5A last
>> year,
>> > so I'm used to it. But I suppose having one partition formatted as
>> ext2/3/4
>> > would be more convenient
>>
>> done ;)
>>
>> dd if=MLO of=/dev/sdX count=1 seek=1 conv=notrunc bs=128k
>> dd if=u-boot.img of=/dev/sdX count=2 seek=1 conv=notrunc bs=384k
>>
>> only works on omap4+ bootrom's (so the old omap34xx/omap36xx family is
>> out)
>>
>> I'm close to rolling out a new testing image that uses this feature..
>> The flasher gets more interesting as i need to remember to include the
>> MLO/u-boot.img somewhere in the ext4 partition for later flashing..
>>
>> Regards,
>>
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>>
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