On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Robert Nelson <robertcnel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Robert Nelson <robertcnel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Loïc Minier <loic.min...@linaro.org> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Sep 01, 2010, Robert Nelson wrote:
>>>> I'm the primary author for most of it, if I draw the 'significant'
>>>> line before localizations..
>>>
>>>  Ok; I added Copyright 2010 Robert Nelson <robertcnel...@gmail.com> at
>>>  the top of our fork; thanks!
>>>
>>>>                             (German(1) spelling versions of "Disk")
>>>
>>>  I just removed the need for the translation in our fork of the script
>>>  (changed "sudo sfdisk [...]" calls to "sudo LC_ALL=C sfdisk [...]")
>>>
>>>  You might want to do the same for your script, to support any language.
>>
>> Thanks Loïc, that definitely will work alot better.  I was playing
>> with LANG='s this morning not have much luck, wish i was bi-lingual.
>> (does Canadian count?)
>>
>>>
>>>> So that leaves one author for dealing with "/dev/mmcblk0[p]" (2)
>>>
>>>  Apparently, we don't have this feature; I guess our script doesn't work
>>>  on real MMC drives on laptops, only on USB ones.
>>
>> Yeah i didn't run into that myself till this summer with my new laptop
>> with built-in mmc card..  So it'll probally come up at some point as a
>> bug for you guys..
>>
>>>  Our version was GPLv3 licensed; I'm not sure whether it's GPLv3+ or
>>>  GPLv3 though.  I think it would be best to move to BSD style licensing,
>>>  but that needs some kind of approval.  Our version is in
>>>  lp:linaro-image-tools BTW (linaro-media-create script).
>>>
>>>   Thanks for your help in sorting this out!
>
> Guys, just a heads up for util-linux-ng 2.18, (I've been tweaking my
> script for Fedora 14/15 usage..)
>
> It looks like 'fdisk' can no longer create the new partition at sector
> 1, (thru forcing dos compatibly mode, i can get it down to sector 62,
> however that isn't bootable on my Bx/Cx beagles)..  I know you use
> sfdisk, but you might run into the same issue since it's from the same
> project..
>
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~linaro-maintainers/linaro-image-tools/linaro-image-tools/annotate/head:/linaro-media-create#L474
>
> I'm looking into using parted from the command line, and so far it
> seems to be working on maverick just have to confirm on fedora..

nm  figured out a work-around with fdisk that works

"-c=dos -u=cylinders"

so you might run into it too..

Regards,

-- 
Robert Nelson
http://www.rcn-ee.com/

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