On Thu, Sep 30, 2010, Alexander Sack wrote:
> Right. So the practical difference is that won't get this space
> offered as being free in your preferred partition tool ... reducing
> risk that you accidentially wipe u-boot from your SD.

 You can also more easily save/replace your bootloader and/or its data,
 whatever is in there.  For instance, dd if=u-boot.imx of=/dev/sdb2 to
 write a new bootloader instead of bs=/seek=/skip= etc.

-- 
Loïc Minier

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