Something about your dd command does not look right. Is this on a linux machine?
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 12:02 AM, Bill Albertson <b...@blowfish-labs.com> wrote: > Howdy all, > > I need some clarification on whether or not the fdisk output for the 5.5 > sunxi installer image is correct. > > I downloaded the 5.5 cubieboard/sunxi installer to try it out. This is > the snapshot: > > miniroot-sunxi-55.fs > <http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/armv7/miniroot-sunxi-55.fs> > 08-Mar-2014 15:20 18.0M > > I then wrote it out with this command: > > dd if=/home/bill/Downloads/miniroot-sunxi-55.fs of=/dev/sdb > > > And then I received two lines of console output when booting, then a halt: > > U-Boot SPL 2012.10-04280-g1a8ac55 (May 23 2013 - 14:01:59) > DRAM: 32MB > > > I did a little checking, and this is what I see when I run fdisk: > > Disk /dev/sdb: 7969 MB, 7969177600 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 968 cylinders, total 15564800 sectors > Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > Disk identifier: 0x00000000 > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sdb1 * 6237 32129 12946+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) > /dev/sdb4 64 32129 16033 a6 OpenBSD > > > It looks like the FAT partition is overlapping the OpenBSD partition, > and that the FAT partition is the first, bootable partition but it > starts well after the OpenBSD partition, which is the fourth partition. > > Is it supposed to look like that? I've checked everything else, > downloaded the image again, wiped the sd card repeatedly, etc... same > results.
