[Voyage-linux] SD Card Install

Frank Parker (spam-protected)
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:
----------------------

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
---[SNIP]---


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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