No, just download the image and dd it to /dev/sda. In the MBR syslinux is located which takes care of a booting process.

Imagine the image as not a hard disk, but a big floppy drive.

Amit Kucheria wrote:
I am not sure how this works then. Do i need to create the partitions
manually? And then load syslinux manually into the MBR?

Regards,
Amit

On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 10:09, Vladimir Ivaschenko wrote:

There is NO partition table on the image, so that's the reason it doesn't detect them properly.

Amit Kucheria wrote:

Hi all,

I used the 2624 image from the website and also compiled my own from
arch sources. But when I write the .bin file to my 1Gb compact flash
device it creates 4 partitions that are highly mangled.

dd if=<image.bin> of=/dev/hda

The first partition is no doubt a FAT12 and the image boots upto a
certain point but then stops with "no inittab found" and asks the user
to input the runlevel.

I think that the mangled partitions have something to do with some files
being missing.

Any pointers would be helpful.

Regards,
Amit
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Best Regards,
Vladimir Ivashchenko
ThunderWorx - www.thunderworx.com
Senior Systems Designer/Engineer



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