From: JamesAng <ang...@gm...> - 2011-07-12 08:22:49
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sakoman wrote: > > The script uses sfdisk, so Arnd's instructions for fdisk don't > directly apply to my implementation. The basic strategy is of course > the same. > Noted. (^^) If we intend to use fdisk manually to understand the procedures, what are the changes against the original wiki that we need? sakoman wrote: > > See the comments in the script. The MBR is 1 sector, 127 sectors of > padding is added to align the start of the FAT partition to the > underlying nand structure. > > No, it should start at 128 and end at 2097151, and the ext partition > should start at 2097152. > > If you take a look at the script source you will see that it is quite > trivial to make this change. > Ok, now I understand. The first sector is MBR and the # of sector needed for padding depends on the page size of the NAND structure. How do we determine the actual page size of the underlying NAND then? sakoman wrote: > > Do you really need a 1GB FAT partition? > The extra large FAT is just an educational example. (^^) No particular requirement. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/trouble-with-should-be-bootable-SD-cards-and-kernel-versions-tp31956950p32044081.html Sent from the Gumstix mailing list archive at Nabble.com. |