On Saturday 04 December 2010 18:05:03 Robert Nelson wrote: > > Guys, just a heads up for util-linux-ng 2.18, (I've been tweaking my > > script for Fedora 14/15 usage..) > > > > It looks like 'fdisk' can no longer create the new partition at sector > > 1, (thru forcing dos compatibly mode, i can get it down to sector 62, > > however that isn't bootable on my Bx/Cx beagles).. I know you use > > sfdisk, but you might run into the same issue since it's from the same > > project.. > > > > http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~linaro-maintainers/linaro-image-tools/linaro-image-tools/annotate/head:/linaro-media-create#L474 > > > > I'm looking into using parted from the command line, and so far it > > seems to be working on maverick just have to confirm on fedora.. > > nm figured out a work-around with fdisk that works > > "-c=dos -u=cylinders" > > so you might run into it too.. >
We really need to fix the boot loaders here. Anything that writes to SD cards at unaligned sectors is rather broken, better make sure that setup_sdcards always aligns the start of each partition to multiples of 4MB from the start of the medium, and that all boot loaders know how to deal with this! Arnd _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev