Hi, On October 8, 2012 at 12:31 PM "Sebastian Kügler" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Saturday, October 06, 2012 17:05:21 Nicola De Filippo wrote: > > i suggest to add this line > > "root@linux printf "\x9d\x2a\x44\x7b"|dd of=/dev/sdX bs=1 count=4 seek=440" > > to the instructions to install mer image on wetab. > > For mere mortals, what does this do? > > (It's always a good idea to note that, since not everybody in a multi- > disciplinary team has the same domain knowledge.) this command modifies the ID inside the partition table. This kind of hack is needed because a WeTab without patched bios do only like to start from a internal recovery partition after using the recovery grip. This hex number is the identifier of the internal recovery partition and by this we are able to install from a external flash drive. Cheers, Maurice _______________________________________________ Active mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/active
