ARM Wiki sd-install update

[Elfy]

On 27/08/12 16:16, Nicholas Skaggs wrote:
> On 08/27/2012 10:01 AM, Elfy wrote:
>> On 20/08/12 23:46, Nicholas Skaggs wrote:
>>>
>>> For those of you braving ARM installations, I tried an sd-based 
>>> installation this week and updated the instructions on the wiki 
>>> page. Elfy, Carla, et la, I can confirm your findings of this bug(s):
>>>
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1036742
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1036988
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-installer/+bug/313452
>>>
>>> and the workaround. It's documented for now on the page:
>>>
>>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/QA/Pandaboard
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Nicholas
>>>
>>>
>> Got today's .img
>>
>> Tried following the wiki to the letter.
>>
>> I am almost positive I am doing something wrong here :)
>>
>> I do *sudo umount /dev/sdd
>>
>> *I do *sudo dd bs=4M if=quantal-desktop-armhf+omap4.img of=/dev/sdd ; 
>> sudo sync
>>
>> *It looks like it's doing something - terminal tells me it's done 
>> something.
>>
>> If I try to just boot the image on the card without worrying about 
>> installing it - left hand board led lights up only.
>>
>>
>> File manager tells me there is exactly nothing on the card.
>>
>> Gparted tells me that there now no partitions on the card.
>>
>> Now - what I am not sure of is whether I have other bugs on this 
>> 12.10 system I run causing all this lol
>>
>>
> Elfy, what's 'sudo fdisk l' show.? /dev/sdd is your usb disk right? 
> :-) And yes, after your run the dd command, the usb disk should have 
> partitions on it and files..one is a boot partititon, athe other 
> contains the installer and files.
>
> Nicholas
Whoops - there's a blank one flying about too ...

Anyway - this is fdisk/umount/dd and then fdisk again

    sudo fdisk -l
    [sudo] password for hob:

    ...

    Disk /dev/sdd: 7948 MB, 7948206080 bytes
    245 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1021 cylinders, total 15523840 sectors
    Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 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
    hob at sidh:~$ sudo umount /dev/sdc
    umount: /dev/sdc: not mounted
    hob at sidh:~$ cd Desktop/
    hob at sidh:~/Desktop$ sudo dd bs=4M if=quantal-desktop-armhf+omap4.img
    of=/dev/sdd ; sudo sync
    5+1 records in
    5+1 records out
    22740992 bytes (23 MB) copied, 1.93299 s, 11.8 MB/s
    hob at sidh:~/Desktop$ sudo fdisk -l

    ...

    Disk /dev/sdd: 7948 MB, 7948206080 bytes
    245 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1021 cylinders, total 15523840 sectors
    Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 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
    hob at sidh:~/Desktop$




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