Well, zeroing the first sector and creating the partition table seems to have fixed the problem but it is frustrating not knowing what the problem was. Thanks for the help.
On Monday, April 11, 2016 at 8:53:54 PM UTC-4, RobertCNelson wrote: > > > > On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 6:24 PM, <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > >> What is the magic to make a DOS partition on a uSD card acceptable to the >> X booter (ROM code)? Does it have to be the first partition? Bootable? FAT >> type? Certain size? I can't seem to make a partition with fdisk on linux >> that the ROM code will accept. I thought maybe it didn't like FAT32 but >> FreeBSD boots happily from a FAT 32 partition. FAT 12 doesn't even work >> although Debian boots fine from FAT 12. I can't see what is different >> between what linux fdisk makes and the bootable Debian or FreeBSD >> partitions. >> > > Specifically, which TI device are you talking about? FAT isn't even a > requirement anymore.. (depending on the TI device) > > Regards, > > -- > Robert Nelson > https://rcn-ee.com/ > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
