On Saturday 04 December 2010 18:05:03 Robert Nelson wrote:
> > 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..
>
We really need to fix the boot loaders here. Anything that writes
to SD cards at unaligned sectors is rather broken, better make sure
that setup_sdcards always aligns the start of each partition to
multiples of 4MB from the start of the medium, and that all boot
loaders know how to deal with this!
Arnd
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