Re: Bootldr question

A bit left out on this post. If you want to
repartition/reformat you can either put it in a camera
and format it there or you can download a live linux
cd such as knoppix ( www.knoppix.org ) burn it to a cd
(make sure you burn it as an image, not just drag and
drop ) boot your windows comp with the car reader from
the CD and access it that way. Then use fdisk and
mkdosfs on it to partition/format it respectively.
Just make absolutely sure that you are partitioning
and formatting the right dev file. It helps to boot
the linux cd then open a terminal stick in your SD
card and issue the following: "dmesg | tail" at the
command prompt. There should be some mention of the sd
card and what dev file it is using.Hope this helps.

--- Arm Suwarnaratana <armzilla_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> David,
> When you do DD the SD card should not be mounted at
> all. DD
> overwrites the partition table and all with the raw
> data from your
> image. The destination file you give it is the
> device, not the mounted
> file system. For windows i may suggest rawwrite to
> write the image.
>
> As for your windows not responding to the card, if
> you ever want to
> use the card again for purposes other than
> installing bootldr you
> should partition+format card to write a working fs
> on to it again.
>
> arm
>
> On Dec 6, 2007 4:02 PM, David Francis
> <francisd_at_voxcomp.com> wrote:
> > I'm trying to get the bootldr-1.2.4 copied to the
> SD card. I don't have a
> > card reader for my linux system so I'm using
> windows and the windows ported
> > dd to do it. It copies but does so with an error:
> >
> > 205,216Error reading file: 87 The parameter is
> incorrect
> >
> > 400+1 records in
> > 400+1 records out
> >
> > The card can't be read by my windows any more and
> the hx4700 ignores the
> > card is there.
> >
> > I've tried cygwin dd, but that won't work because
> it says that my SD card
> > mount is a directory and won't copy anything.
> >
> > Any help here would be very much appreciated.
> >
> > David
> >
> >
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Received on Mon Dec 10 2007 - 02:22:31 EST