On 3 May 2011 09:32, Tony MANSSON <tony.xpt.mans...@stericsson.com> wrote: > The ST-Ericsson Snowball has an eMMC that need a first partition of unknown > type to make room for some files that the SoC needs in order to boot. We boot > up to u-boot here, and then proceeds either to the internal eMMC or to the SD > card, in both cases with the standard boot and root partitions as created by > Linaro-Media-Create. > > When creating images, this first partition is needed for the option > --image_file, but should not be created for the option --mmc.
This sounds like you would end up with different results from: * using "--mmc" to write directly to a card * using "--image_file" and then copying the image to card with dd That would be very confusing and a bad idea I think, but perhaps I'm misunderstanding? -- PMM _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev