On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 11:49 AM, <a...@arndb.de> wrote: > 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!
Well, the good news, the bootloaders, x-load and u-boot do a better job at this on the omap family.... However, it's actually the bootrom, inside the omap3 that's the problem.. Regards, -- Robert Nelson http://www.rcn-ee.com/ _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
