[Voyage-linux] SD Card Install
Frank Parker
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Sun Feb 21 03:50:11 HKT 2010
Trying to install voyage-current onto an SD card to see if my device
will boot from SD card. I followed the installation steps in the
README using my SD card (recognized as /dev/sdd) instead of a true CF
card. On the last step the installer throws this error...
---[SNIP]---
Configuration details:
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Distribution directory: /home/ubuntu/Downloads/voyage-current
Disk/Flash Device: /dev/sdd
Installation Partition: /dev/sdd1
Create Partition and FS: yes
Bootstrap Partition: /dev/sdd1
Will be mounted on: /mnt/cf
Target system profile: Generic PC
Target console: standard
Bootstrap installer: grub
Bootstrap partition: /dev/sdd1
OK to continue (y/n)? y
Ready to go ....
Checking that no-one is using this disk right now ...
OK
Disk /dev/sdd: 1020 cylinders, 63 heads, 62 sectors/track
Old situation:
Units = cylinders of 1999872 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/sdd1 0+ 1019 1020- 1992029 83 Linux
/dev/sdd2 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sdd3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sdd4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
trailing junk after number
sfdisk: bad input
mount: special device /dev/sdd1 does not exist
Fatal Error: Failed to mount /dev/sdd1 on /mnt/cf as an ext2 partition
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I had previously used fdisk to create a single linux partition on the
SD card and formatted it with ext2. I verified that I can mount the
SD card (mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt/cf) and read/write files. Not sure why
the installer is having trouble.
Then I tried the format-cf.sh helper script and it throws this error...
---[SNIP]---
# ./usr/local/sbin/format-cf.sh /dev/sdd1
Press ENTER to continue to format flash memory on /dev/sdd1
Checking that no-one is using this disk right now ...
BLKRRPART: Invalid argument
OK
Warning: start=62 - this looks like a partition rather than
the entire disk. Using fdisk on it is probably meaningless.
[Use the --force option if you really want this]
---[SNIP]---
Any clues?
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