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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: How to make a new resized bootable SD (or SDHC) card (CORRECTION)
From: "olivera_vale" <>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:38:08 -0000
Hi, do you have any idea of how to make a bootable SDHC for TS-7260?

Thanks

Valeria

--- In  "leaton" <> wrote:
>
> I wanted to make a bootable SD card for the TS7390 but resize the
> partitions
> to make more room in the 4th partition for native development.
> 
> This is how to do it. I want to save others the trouble of what it took to
> figure this out.
> 
> First, you must repartition your new SD card and create the file systems.
> Ted Roth has information on how to do this
> 
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ts-7000/message/12885
> 
> Note: You cannot do this on the TS7390 card. The fdisk command does
> not work properly.
> I found that you can go through the motions and it pretends to work,
> but it does not apparently
> write the partition table to the SD even though it indicates that it did.
> 
> You must do the partitioning on another linux machine.
> (The reference to tssdcarda below may be something different on
> your computer)
> Next - using your old SD card that boots:
> 
> dd if=/dev/tssdcarda of=sd-mbr.dd bs=320 count=1
> dd if=/dev/tssdcarda1 of=sdpart1.dd
> dd if=/dev/tssdcarda2 of=sdpart2.dd
> dd if=/dev/tssdcarda3 of=sdpart3.dd
> dd if=/dev/tssdcarda4 of=sdpart4.dd
> 
> This captures everything from your bootable SD card.
> 
> Now to put it on the new one.
> dd if=sd-mbr.dd of=/dev/tssdcarda bs=320 count=1
> dd if=sdpart1.dd of=/dev/tssdcarda1
> dd if=sdpart2.dd of=/dev/tssdcarda2
> dd if=sdpart3.dd of=/dev/tssdcarda3
> dd if=sdpart4.dd of=/dev/tssdcarda4
> 
> Now you can put the card into the TS7390 and it should boot.
> You're not done yet though. The 4th partition, the one you want extra
> space on is still
> the same size as the old SD card.
> 
> Boot the TS7390 with your new SD card in it, but boot from flash, NOT
> the SD card!!!
> 
> Now mount the 4th partition:
> 
> mkdir /mnt/sd
> mount /dev/tssdcarda4 /mnt/sd
> 
> Now resize the partition
> mount -o remount,resize /mnt/sd
> 
> umount /mnt/sd
> 
> Now shut down and switch to boot the SD card and you should be good to go.
> 
> Note: The first partition is the Eclipse environment for cross
> development on a PC. Since I am not using this, I skipped the part
> outlined above for copying the first partition. I made the first
> partition small in order to allow more space for the 4th partition.
> 
> I used a 4 gig SD HC and it works fine and I have a HUGE work area on
> the 4th partition now!
> 
> Larry
>




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