unfortunately, yes.
On 04/30/2014 05:48 AM, Brandon Mercer wrote:
> 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.
