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From: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] M28: Document that units has to be set to sectors on SD bootcard
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 18:38:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201111241838.22457.marek.vasut@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOMZO5CVP=efXnrOwP7MPkbOo4H4y2BdfMt43+c6wb0-8TFkJw@mail.gmail.com>

> On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com> wrote:
> >  For example in Linux fdisk, the sequence for a clear card is the
> > following:
> > 
> >        * o ..................... create a clear partition table
> > +       * p ..................... here you need to verify that units is
> > set to +                                 sectors. In the output, earch
> > for a line
> 
> s/earch/search

Thanks!
> 
> > +                                 containing:
> > +                                     Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512
> > bytes +                                 If no such line is present,
> > press "u" to +                                 switch units to sectors.
> 
> Or maybe an easier way is to call:
> sudo fdisk /dev/mmcblk0 -u

-u=sectors is even better. Of course, this doesn't work on *BSD. Other 
OSes/game-loaders/etc. I don't think we even consider ;-)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Fabio Estevam

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-11-24 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-24 16:57 [U-Boot] [PATCH] M28: Document that units has to be set to sectors on SD bootcard Marek Vasut
     [not found] ` <CAOMZO5CVP=efXnrOwP7MPkbOo4H4y2BdfMt43+c6wb0-8TFkJw@mail.gmail.com>
2011-11-24 17:38   ` Marek Vasut [this message]
2011-11-24 17:39 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH V2] " Marek Vasut
2011-11-24 17:59   ` Fabio Estevam
2011-11-24 18:02   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH V3] " Marek Vasut
2011-11-24 20:45 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH] " Wolfgang Denk
2011-11-24 22:32   ` Marek Vasut

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