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Where is 'mkcard.txt'?

e14 Contributor
e14 Contributor over 14 years ago

Where is 'mkcard.txt'? Anybody know?

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    e14 Contributor over 14 years ago

    The following is right?

     

    #! /bin/sh # mkcard.sh v0.5 # (c) Copyright 2009 Graeme Gregory <dp@xora.org.uk> # Licensed under terms of GPLv2 # # Parts of the procudure base on the work of Denys Dmytriyenko # wiki.omap.com/.../MMC_Boot_Format  export LC_ALL=C  if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then echo "Usage: $0 <drive>" exit 1; fi  DRIVE=$1  dd if=/dev/zero of=$DRIVE bs=1024 count=1024  SIZE=`fdisk -l $DRIVE | grep Disk | grep bytes | awk '{print $5}'`  echo DISK SIZE - $SIZE bytes  CYLINDERS=`echo $SIZE/255/63/512 | bc`  echo CYLINDERS - $CYLINDERS  { echo ,9,0x0C,* echo ,,,- } | sfdisk -D -H 255 -S 63 -C $CYLINDERS $DRIVE  sleep 1   if [ -x `which kpartx` ]; then kpartx -a ${DRIVE} fi  # handle various device names. # note something like fdisk -l /dev/loop0 | egrep -E '^/dev' | cut -d' ' -f1 # won't work due to bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi PARTITION1=${DRIVE}1 if [ ! -b ${PARTITION1} ]; then PARTITION1=${DRIVE}p1 fi  DRIVE_NAME=`basename $DRIVE` DEV_DIR=`dirname $DRIVE`  if [ ! -b ${PARTITION1} ]; then PARTITION1=$DEV_DIR/mapper/${DRIVE_NAME}p1 fi  PARTITION2=${DRIVE}2 if [ ! -b ${PARTITION2} ]; then PARTITION2=${DRIVE}p2 fi if [ ! -b ${PARTITION2} ]; then PARTITION2=$DEV_DIR/mapper/${DRIVE_NAME}p2 fi   # now make partitions. if [ -b ${PARTITION1} ]; then umount ${PARTITION1} mkfs.vfat -F 32 -n "boot" ${PARTITION1} else echo "Cant find boot partition in /dev" fi  if [ -b ${PARITION2} ]; then umount ${PARTITION2} mke2fs -j -L "Angstrom" ${PARTITION2} else echo "Cant find rootfs partition in /dev" fi 
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    e14 Contributor over 14 years ago in reply to e14 Contributor

    This is the 'mkcard.txt'. I got it on http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/demo/beagleboard/mkcard.txt.

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