Experiences on Etherboot for IDE Compact flash and FLASHROMS

Stefan Reinauer stepan at suse.de
Thu May 1 14:08:00 CEST 2003


* ron minnich <rminnich at lanl.gov> [030501 08:48]:
> Then mkelfImage on the kernel of choice.
> 
> Then dd if=elfImage_of_kernel of=/dev/hdc bs=4096 skip=1
> 

should be seek, not skip i think:

       seek=BLOCKS
              skip BLOCKS obs-sized blocks at start of output

       skip=BLOCKS
              skip BLOCKS ibs-sized blocks at start of input

otherwise you loose your partition table.

 Stefan
  
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