[App_rpt-users] Help with writing Pickle image to Micro-SD

[Kevin Walsh]

I purchased some Sandisk 4Gb Micro-SD cards and once again wrote the
pickle.img file to it, but no computer recognizes the disk nor will
the BeagleBoard-xM boot.

Still looking for ideas?

Kevin

On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Kevin Walsh <w8khw1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been trying to create a bootable Micro-SD card with pickle.img
> for a BeagleBoard-Xm, but not having any luck. I have tried writing
> the image from WinXP (with dd), from Mac OSX and from RHEL6. It takes
> about an hour to write the image no matter which platform - with the
> same result. It doesn't work.My last attempts have been on RHEL6.
> Below is the output from fdisk after writing the image. It shows both
> partitions and that part 1 is marked as bootable. But the device will
> not mount on RHEL, not will it boot the BeagleBoard.
>
> Can anybody lend a clue as to where I'm going wrong?
>
>
> Command (m for help): p
>
> Disk /dev/sdd1: 3948 MB, 3948102144 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 479 cylinders, total 7711137 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: 0x00015d60
>
>     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdd1p1   *          63      144584       72261    e  W95 FAT16 (LBA)
> /dev/sdd1p2          144585     7727264     3791340   83  Linux
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin
> W8KHW
>