Segfault. What has that got to do with the ROM not recognizing a partition table?
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 11:53 AM, William Hermans <[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.* > > > 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/ >>> >> -- >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "BeagleBoard" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/beagleboard/VkEDlXayFB8/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
