Re: [leaf-wisp] wisp-dist images making corrupt partition tables?

No, just download the image and dd it to /dev/sda. In the MBR syslinux 
is located which takes care of a booting process.

Imagine the image as not a hard disk, but a big floppy drive.

Amit Kucheria wrote:
> I am not sure how this works then. Do i need to create the partitions
> manually? And then load syslinux manually into the MBR?
> 
> Regards,
> Amit
> 
> On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 10:09, Vladimir Ivaschenko wrote:
> 
>>There is NO partition table on the image, so that's the reason it 
>>doesn't detect them properly.
>>
>>Amit Kucheria wrote:
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>I used the 2624 image from the website and also compiled my own from
>>>arch sources. But when I write the .bin file to my 1Gb compact flash
>>>device it creates 4 partitions that are highly mangled.
>>>
>>>dd if=<image.bin> of=/dev/hda
>>>
>>>The first partition is no doubt a FAT12 and the image boots upto a
>>>certain point but then stops with "no inittab found" and asks the user
>>>to input the runlevel.
>>>
>>>I think that the mangled partitions have something to do with some files
>>>being missing.
>>>
>>>Any pointers would be helpful.
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>Amit
>>>-- 
>>
> -- 


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Best Regards,
Vladimir Ivashchenko
ThunderWorx - www.thunderworx.com
Senior Systems Designer/Engineer



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