ARM Wiki sd-install update

[Nicholas Skaggs]

On 08/27/2012 01:15 PM, Carla Sella wrote:
> On 08/27/2012 05:44 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote:
>> On 08/27/2012 11:29 AM, Elfy wrote:
>>> 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$
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> You umounted /dev/sdc :-) You have to unmount a parition anyways, so 
>> it would be something like /dev/sdd1, etc. Try putting a partition on 
>> /dev/sdd , making sure you can mount it, and then issuing the dd 
>> command. Obviously it will be wiped by dd, but let's  confirm the 
>> disk is working.
>>
>>
>> Nicholas
>>
>>
>
>
> Hello,
> I tried too to download today's image, but strangely it's only 22MB 
> big, normally it was 660MB.
> I tried to copy it to my SD card as I have always done, but when you 
> then launch gparted you get no partitions on it.
> I checked the md5sum and it's ok, but 22M can't be right, could there 
> be something wrong with the image loaded on the iso tracker ?
> Carla
> -- 
> Carla Sella
> email:carla.sella at gmail.com
> https://launchpad.net/~carla-sella
> http://qa.ubuntu.com/

Yikes! 22mb file? Elfy, Carla, yep definitely not a valid image. I 
marked it for re-build. As I mentioned, this week is going to be crazy 
with images failing all over the place. Keep your eyes open!

Nicholas
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