>
> Hi Jordi,
>
> I have this nagging suspicion that I'm missing something fairly
> fundamental.
>
> In the instructions in the Users guide, the SD card is partitioned
> with only _1_ partition, using the whole card. But if I inspect the
> 512M card from Technologic it has 3 partitions.
>
> fdisk reports that the first 2 are quite small (type da) and the third
> contains the rest. Equally the Technologic card does not have any
> partition set as "bootable" where-as the instructions do say to make
> the partition bootable.
>
> I know this is probably laughably basic to y'all, but consider this a
> plea from a rapidly-balding-programmer...
>
> Cheers
> Bruce
>
>
> --- In ts-7000%40yahoogroups.com, "Jordi Soucheiron" <jsoucheiron@>
> wrote:
> >
> > I don't know if this will solve all your problems, but it's worth a
> try. I
> > had to change the sdcard.o original module for the one found in the
> ftp (the
> > original is about 19k and the updated one 20k).
> > Good luck
> >
> > 2008/10/21 brucejohnson395 <bruce@>
> >
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > This is my first post, so let me introduce myself. I have got a
> > > TS-7400 board (with SDK) this week. [I also have the TS-7800
with SDK
> > > as well, but I haven't started with that yet.]
> > >
> > > I must confess I've been quite frustrated by the board so far, but I
> > > believe it's due to me flailing around without really making any
> > > progress in any direction.
> > >
> > > My experience with Linux is in the "enough experience to be
dangerous"
> > > category. I can find my way around ok, follow instructions, even use
> > > vi, but the overall "success" rate is quite low.
> > >
> > > My goal is to copy some C source code onto the board, and from that
> > > compile to some programs & libraries. However along the way I'm
> > > encountering lots of questions, and not many answers.
> > >
> > > First off, I'd like to make a backup of the 512Mg SD card that
came in
> > > the kit. For 2 reasons. (a) I'm hesitant to go too far with the
> > > shipping one 'cause sooner or later I'm gonna break it and (b) it
> > > seems to be slightly on the small side. (I wanted to install
wget for
> > > example and it more or less ran out of space.)
> > >
> > > I have a 2gig SD card. And I have a normal intel Linux box (running
> > > Fedora) to work with.
> > >
> > > Even this relatively simple process has raised a bunch of questions.
> > > Any hints or tips on where I'm going wrong would be greatly
> appreciated.
> > >
> > > I followed the instructions on page 25 of the "Linux for ARM on
> > > TS-72XX User's Guide" (July 2008 edition).
> > >
> > > Question 1: the fdisk command stright off the bat looks wrong.
The doc
> > > says
> > > fdisk /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
> > > which looks wrong, because we're on the big linux box, not the
ts7000,
> > > I'm thinking it should be
> > > fdisk /dev/sda1
> > > yes?
> > >
> > > fdisk, and then mkfs.ext2 seemed to go right. mounting and Tar
seemed
> > > to go ok. However card failed when put in TS-7400.
> > >
> > > Back to the Linux PC - and some gathered information.
> > > I'm using fdisk -l to see the devices connected to the Linux Pc. So
> > > when I plug in the 512M SD card (via SD/USD Thumb drive reader) from
> > > Technologic, I see 3 partitions
> > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> > > /dev/sdb1 1 6 1520 da Non-FS data
> > > /dev/sdb2 7 10 1024 da Non-FS data
> > > /dev/sdb3 20 953 239104 83 Linux
> > >
> > > Should I be worried about the first 2 partitions? Are they
required to
> > > make my backup card work?
> > >
> > > On my 2 gig card, after following the instructions on page 25,
> > > (including the command mkfs.ext2 /dev/sdb1 command) I do a fdisk -l
> > > and get;
> > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> > > /dev/sdb1 1 1090 1993604+ 6 FAT16
> > >
> > > Fat16??? I thought it should be EXT2, or perhaps "Linux"? I've
> > > repeated this process a couple times and it comes out the same
> every time.
> > >
> > > Suffice to say the card doesn't boot when I plug it into the
TS-7400.
> > >
> > > While we're on the topic whenever I try and umount the card (umount
> > > /mnt)I get a "device busy" message. Why?
> > >
> > > Any suggestions gratefully received.
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > > Bruce
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jordi Soucheiron
> > Software Engineer
> >
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> >
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> >
>