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Re: [ts-7000] Installing a Kernel on a CF

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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] Installing a Kernel on a CF
From: Jim Jackson <>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:04:43 +0100 (BST)


On Wed, 27 Apr 2011, koehnp wrote:

> Another fine mess I've gotten myself into, Ollie...
> 
> I have been a Linux user for a very long time, but only at the user level.  I 
> can install, compile, etc, but I've never worked with file systems much.
> 
> I've been working on getting a new kernel built for my 7200, one that
> supports ham radio.  I managed to build the kernel without errors by
> following the instructions at
> http://www.embeddedarm.com/about/resourccde.php?item=485 almost to the
> letter.  The menu interface was a little different, but I managed.
> 
> I followed the directions to copy the zImage file over to the CF card
> (at /dev/sdb1), dd if=arch/arm/boot/zImage of=/dev/sdb1, it seemed to
> copy.  I unmounted the cf, popped it into the 7200 and fired it up.
> It failed with a kernel panic.  I moved the CF back over to my
> development machine, and it seems that my dd blew away my entire
> filesystem on the CF.
> 
> Any ideas as to what I did wrong?  Thank you for any information!

yes, you used dd

dd copies byte-for-byte to /dev/sdb1, so it will screw over your file 
system, just as you asked it to.

Why didn't you use "cp"? 


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