Using ADLO with Linuxbios
Steve Gehlbach
steve at nexpath.com
Mon Apr 28 15:12:00 CEST 2003
Deepak Kotian wrote:
> I tried this a similar command on a Compact flash IDE after partioning.
> Say.
>
>>dd if=elfImage of=/dev/hdc1 bs=4096 seek=1
>>--------------------------^^
What Ron used was /dev/hdc, ie, the drive from the beginning, not
partition 1. The 4096 and seek=1 skips over the partition table and
puts the image into the last part of the MBR/partition table area
overlapping into partition 1. It's equivalent to seeking 8 sectors from
the beginning when viewing the disk as linear sector addressing.
I wouldn't do this sort of thing on any drive you care about, easy to
make typos and wipe out the disk (or another disk if your fingers type
/dev/hda when your brain says hdc).
-Steve
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