[Freedombox-discuss] Creating image on SD card

dww dworthem at msn.com
Fri Feb 1 04:00:17 UTC 2013


I am new to the freedombox and not very experienced with development on
Gnu/Linux but as a beginner I would appreciate feedback on the
following .

I tried to follow the procedure to copy the image from
http://hackervisions.org/doc/freedombox_14_nov_2011.img.xz to the SD
card using dd.  After running dd the SD card had two partitions, one
with type fat of 128 MB and the remainder on an ext3 partition. After
inserting the card back into my Dream Plug and while starting it up I
got the error that the it could not find an ext2 partition from which to
boot up. 

I backed up the files from the 2 partitions onto my laptop and then
repartioned the card with a 128 MB ext2 partition and the remainder an
ext3 partition and copied the files from the laptop back to these
partitions (the ext2 one as the boot partition). The DP booted up OK.

For my understanding why did I need to do this or did I do something
incorrect? All the instructions I saw on the freedombox web sites or the
README file indicate that the first partition should be fat. Or would
this have been OK if I had updated uBoot in the firmware according to
the instructions?

Thank you.

Dennis




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