I tried to set a 2k block with dd but get the same warnings, but since
everything seems to work fine and I only actually see them when the card is
mounted on my desktop I'm not sure it really matters.
Thanks for the info.
--- In "Kris" <> wrote:
>
> You can safely ignore these warnings, it is simply fdisk complaining that the
> sectors do not line up on the DOS defined CHS notation. The sectors are
> aligned for 2kbyte erase blocks (hence the recommendation of bs=2048, but you
> are safe without using it) that are defined in flash. This allows us to use
> the same partition table on both the SD card and NAND flash as well as easily
> change between the two.
>
> Using `fdisk -cu` from a host PC will stop these messages, just make sure to
> keep everything aligned on 2048 byte boundaries.
>
> -Kris Bahnsen
> Technologic Systems
>
>
>
> --- In "geoffjay01" <geoff.jay@> wrote:
> >
> > This may or may not be a problem, but I'm getting a bunch of messages from
> > fdisk about incorrect partition boundaries.
> >
> > As per the README on the FTP I've blanked out the SD card and done
> >
> > $ dd if=512mbsd-latest.dd of=/dev/sdd
> >
> > and when I try to list the partitions I get
> >
> > --------
> >
> > Disk /dev/sdd: 2032 MB, 2032664576 bytes
> > 63 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1016 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 3906 * 512 = 1999872 bytes
> > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> > Disk identifier: 0x00000000
> >
> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> > /dev/sdd1 1 3 4096 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
> > Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
> > phys=(0, 4, 13) logical=(0, 4, 9)
> > Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
> > phys=(17, 2, 30) logical=(2, 10, 16)
> > Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> > /dev/sdd2 3 4 3072 da Non-FS data
> > Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
> > phys=(2, 12, 17) logical=(2, 10, 17)
> > Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
> > phys=(3, 49, 22) logical=(3, 46, 22)
> > Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> > /dev/sdd3 5 6 1536 da Non-FS data
> > Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
> > phys=(16, 12, 25) logical=(4, 16, 25)
> > Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
> > phys=(19, 13, 58) logical=(5, 2, 58)
> > Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> > /dev/sdd4 7 254 482944 83 Linux
> > Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
> > phys=(50, 7, 6) logical=(6, 22, 33)
> > Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
> > phys=(1023, 7, 61) logical=(253, 40, 22)
> > Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> >
> > --------
> >
> > the SD card I'm using here shows up as 64MB larger than the one supplied by
> > TS so these warnings don't really surprise me.
> >
> > What I'm wondering is if I can safely ignore these or better yet is there a
> > way to remedy them?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
>
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