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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: Trouble cloning SD card
From: "ka7ftp" <>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:17:09 -0000
Hi,

I tried building the new car by only dd'ing down the file system I dd'd off the 
original working SD, leaving it at 512M.  I also tried running ext2resize 
expand the card to the full 2 gig.  I retained the original starting cylinder 
at 20.  Both give the same results.

Shouldn't dd lay down a workable file system?  After I dd on to the new card I 
can mount it on a running linux box and traverse the file system.  Everything 
looks good, non corrupted.  

The first partitions are non-FS where the kernel and the ram drive are stored.  
Is there a way to verify those?

I can try dd'ing one of the images from the web site.


len


--- In  "tractormannmwt" <> wrote:
>
> Len,
> 
> I am using the 7800 card and have successfully "stretched" the 7800 512 MByte 
> image the Technologic onto a 4 GByte SD card. Here are the steps I took:
> 
> 1) dd if=/home/ts7800/512-meg-image.dd of=/dev/mmblk0
>    - the 512-meg-image.dd is from the Technologic guys
>    - the /dev/mmblk0 is the SD card device on my laptop
> 2) eject the SD card from my laptop
> 3) re-insert the SD card into my laptop (forcing a mount and cleaning up the 
> partitions)
> 4) Use GParted to stretch the 500 Meg partition to consume the rest of the SD 
> Card.
> 5) eject the SD card from my laptop
> 6) re-insert the SD card into my laptop and alter any files needed.
> 
> I'm guessing there are easier ways. However, I was a little disappointed that 
> the partitions spelled out did not end on cylinder boundaries, which makes it 
> much harder to use fdisk...
> 
> --- In  "ka7ftp" <ka7ftp@> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have a working TS-7400 using the Debian Linux from their 515 Meg SD card. 
> >  I want to use a larger SD card, 2 gig.
> > 
> > I took the original 512 meg card and dd'd it to a file:
> > 
> > dd if=/dev/sdb of=SD-base.dd
> > 
> > Then I dd'd it to the new SD card.
> > 
> > dd if=SD-base.dd of=/dev/sdb
> > 
> > Looking at the new card with fdisk it matches the original disk in layout:
> > 
> > Disk /dev/sdb: 2032 MB, 2032664576 bytes
> > 16 heads, 32 sectors/track, 7754 cylinders Units = cylinders of 512 * 512 = 
> > 262144 bytes
> > 
> >    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
> > 
> > Command (m for help):
> > 
> > When I mount the file system on the linux box that I wrote the card with 
> > everything appears to be complete.
> > 
> > When I try and boot from the TS-7400 it fails:
> > 
> > >> TS-FLASHBOOT - built Sep 27 2006
> > >> Copyright (c) 2006, Technologic Systems
> > .
> > .
> > .
> > Finished booting in 1.59 seconds
> > Type 'tshelp' for help
> > $ exit
> > >> Booting Linux...
> > pivot_root: pivot_root: No such file or directory
> > /linuxrc: 43: bin/mount: not found
> > /linuxrc: 44: bin/mount: not found
> > /linuxrc: 45: cannot open ./dev/ttyAM0: No such file
> > 
> > I searched for these messages and found this thread.  I ran the 
> > update_9441, nothing appears to have changed.  The flashboot header still 
> > shows the same build date, Sep 27 2006, not the Oct 6 date from the 
> > directions in the thread.
> > 
> > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ts-7000/message/4852
> > 
> > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ts-7000/message/4959
> > 
> > 
> > Can anyone point me to a fix for this?
> > 
> > Thank you!
> > 
> > len
> >
>




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