-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/16/2010 11:14 PM, Delbert Franz wrote: > I'm working up to some benchmarks on micro SD card and today I > partitioned a 8 GB card into eight partitions: First 3 are primary and > the remaining ones are logical. Using cfdisk on the Nanonote numbers > the partitions: p1 through p9 with the base name of "mmcblk0". This > all looks OK. However, when the Nanonote is booted with the card > present in the micro SD slot, it come ups during boot up showing the > following pattern of partitions: > > p1 p2 p3 p4 <p5 p6 p7> > > which is incorrect. It should be > > p1 p2 p3 p4 < p5 p6 p7 p8 p9>. >
Hi The kernel has only support for up to 7 partions. You can change this by setting CONFIG_MMC_BLOCK_MINORS to a higher number and recompile the kernel. - - Lars > When I hot-plug the card, the Nanonote tries to mount p4 but fails. > Automounting is really confused! It mounts partitions: p1, p5, p6, > and p7. One can mount p2 and p3 manually. For some reason the > automounter tries to mount p4 and gets all confused because it has no > file system. In the process it apparently "forgets" about p2 and p3:) > And it does not know that p8 and p9 exist. > > There is then some problem in the part of the software that recognizes > the partition table because it has it wrong and so the automounter > gets confused. > > I have had no problem with four primary partitions but logical > partitions are not being recognized properly. So we can only get four > partitions automounted. We can get six mounted if we use three > primary and three logical. We have to mount p2 and p3 manually. That > seems to be the limit. When I repartition the card to have eight > logical partitions only p5, p6 and p7 are mounted. Again the Nanonote > tries to mount p1 and of course fails:) > > Anyone else had this problem or found a way to work around it? > > Thanks, > > Delbert > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Qi Hardware Discussion List > Mail to list (members only): [email protected] > Subscribe or Unsubscribe: > http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk0k78sACgkQBX4mSR26RiP3zgCggO6XCQiTmwiBsjh8cKjWaXJt 3zwAnjesXPrHThWZM2+NRXUZvi2Dhkp2 =JbfO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
