>
> *Well, zeroing the first sector and creating the partition table seems to
> have fixed the problem but it is frustrating not knowing what the problem
> was.  Thanks for the help.*


So look at it like this. What happens when in code one attempts to read a
string in C out of memory, where the string is of unknown size, and the
string has no null termination ?

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 7:16 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Well, zeroing the first sector and creating the partition table seems to
> have fixed the problem but it is frustrating not knowing what the problem
> was.  Thanks for the help.
>
> On Monday, April 11, 2016 at 8:53:54 PM UTC-4, RobertCNelson wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 6:24 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> What is the magic to make a DOS partition on a uSD card acceptable to
>>> the X booter (ROM code)?  Does it have to be the first partition? Bootable?
>>> FAT type? Certain size?  I can't seem to make a partition with fdisk on
>>> linux that the ROM code will accept.  I thought maybe it didn't like FAT32
>>> but FreeBSD boots happily from a FAT 32 partition.  FAT 12 doesn't even
>>> work although Debian boots fine from FAT 12.  I can't see what is different
>>> between what linux fdisk makes and the bootable Debian or FreeBSD
>>> partitions.
>>>
>>
>> Specifically, which TI device are you talking about?  FAT isn't even a
>> requirement anymore.. (depending on the TI device)
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> --
>> Robert Nelson
>> https://rcn-ee.com/
>>
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