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From: Eddie Dawydiuk <>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:53:34 -0700 (MST)
Hello,

> So if I want to modify the initrd as Jesse suggested, I should mount
> partition 2 of the SD card on my Linux machine as an ext2 partition and
> then I should just be able to make my modifications?  (I did mount
> partition 2 that way last night, and was able to look at it's contents.)

Correct.

> If at some point I want to change the kernel, do I need to use something
> like "dd if=vmlinuz of=/dev/sda1" to modify the SD Card (again with a
> Linux PC)?   If there are other options needed on dd, etc, could you
> please detail those?

This is correct also, you shouldn't need any other options to dd.

> The original problem was that the TS-7300 is hanging after I load the
> FPGA with the bitstream from the unmodified TS-7300 OpenCores project,
> so *specific* instructions on how to fix that would be appreciated and
> should probably be included with the TS-7300 Opencore download.     It
> would be nice if someone from TS could test those modifications and then
> publish them somewhere, as I'm guessing I'm not the only person that
> bought the TS-7300 specifically to use his own bitstream (?)

I'll look into this...

//Eddie

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>> sda1 is not a valid partition (it's the raw kernel image), sda2 is a
>> ext2 partition... If you put the SD card on your PC linux will
>> recognice it. It's not well documented,
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