etherboot

[Richard Smith]

Serafino Sorrenti wrote:

> i've tried to put the kernel on the compact flash but there are problems here:
> 
> 
>>    Currently the hack for accomplishing this is
>>
>>    dd if=elfimage of=/dev/hde bs=4096 seek=1
>>
> 
> 
> it seems to erase the partition table, do i have to skip some bytes at the 
> beginning of the disk ?

Hmmm... I't shouldn't.  Thats what the seek=1 does.  Its skips over 4Kib 
  of space before it begins writing.  That should more than clear your 
partition table.  Are you sure it nuked your partition table?

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Richard A. Smith
rsmith at bitworks.com