On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Constantine Cusulos <noha...@freemail.gr> wrote: > Ted Unangst wrote: >> >> you want Linux without a newline, so use echo -n. B dd by default >> truncates, so a better set of options is something like bs=8 count=1 >> conv=notrunc,sync >> >> > > so i use > > $ echo -n Linux | dd of=/emul/linux/usr/bin/fpc bs=8 seek=1 conv=notrunc,sync
this may be stating the obvious, but did you replace the fpc executable with a fresh one after your first try? --patrick
