Re: Booting from large microSD (SDHC) [success]

2008-12-21 Thread Lothar Behrens
As I have posted the output of fdisk I have the partition. I was able to create the partition and see it afterwards. So I agree with you that it may the u-boot and or kernel. Mine is 2.6.24. I think it's time for flashing :-) Lothar Am 21.12.2008 um 01:54 schrieb arne anka: I have

Re: Booting from large microSD (SDHC) [success]

2008-12-21 Thread Bernt
Lothar Behrens wrote: Here is the problem: After first boot I couldn't use fdisk, because it couldn't access anyhow. My 16 GB SanDisk SD-Card at first had also a problem with fdisk (from SHR distribution), but after an `opkg upgrade` all was working fine. Bernt -- View this message

Re: Booting from large microSD (SDHC) [success]

2008-12-20 Thread Lothar Behrens
Hi, I have now also a 16 GB SD card (SanDisk/SDSDQ-016G-E11M) but I didn't get it run with my ASU 2008/9 from Tue, 16 Sep 2008 and uboot 1.3.2-moko12. Here is the problem: After fisrt boot I couldn't use fdisk, because it couldn't access anyhow. Then after another reboot I was able to do it.

Re: Booting from large microSD (SDHC) [success]

2008-12-20 Thread arne anka
you need to format! mke2fs is your friend. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Booting from large microSD (SDHC) [success]

2008-12-20 Thread Lothar Behrens
That's done, but it doesn't create the device for partition 1. I have rebooted after formatting /dev/mmcblk0 I need to create the device nodes for the partitions before I can mount on it and I think I should then format these devices before I mount. Lothar Am 21.12.2008 um 00:54 schrieb

Re: Booting from large microSD (SDHC) [success]

2008-12-20 Thread arne anka
I have rebooted after formatting /dev/mmcblk0 /dev/mmcblk0 is the raw device, you want /dev/mmcblk0p1. look at the output from fdisk ... if it is still not there, your u-boot/kernel might be too old. are there any messages at boot? ___ Openmoko

Re: Booting from large microSD (SDHC) [success]

2008-11-11 Thread Alex Oberhauser
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:33:42AM +0100, Lothar Behrens wrote: Thanks, I had some more look about other cards about 8GB, but if there are more users having success, I will buy this card. For me the 8 GB card which I have works also great (booting Debian from it). With older kernels the

Re: Booting from large microSD (SDHC) [success]

2008-11-11 Thread Flemming Richter Mikkelsen
I tried some SDHC cards. I created multiple partitions. The first one on 2GiB, the second one also on 2GiB and the final on the remaining free space. The problem I discovered (some time ago) was that information written to the final partition (and maybe also the second) would get corrupted very

Re: Booting from large microSD (SDHC) [success]

2008-11-10 Thread Alastair Johnson
Lothar Behrens wrote: Thanks, I had some more look about other cards about 8GB, but if there are more users having success, I will buy this card. I'm successfully multi-booting with a Sandisk 8GB card. I don't remember the model number and it's not printed on the card. Uboot says this

Re: Booting from large microSD (SDHC) [success]

2008-11-10 Thread Marian Flor
Am Montag, den 10.11.2008, 00:33 +0100 schrieb Lothar Behrens: I had some more look about other cards about 8GB, but if there are more users having success, I will buy this card. The iPhone and the N810 support 16GB microSD so why shouldn't the Openmoko? was my guess and so I gave it a try.

Re: Booting from large microSD (SDHC) [success]

2008-11-09 Thread Lothar Behrens
Thanks, I had some more look about other cards about 8GB, but if there are more users having success, I will buy this card. Especially when the eaten MBR problem was only once a problem. Was it ? Thanks Lothar Am 08.11.2008 um 12:47 schrieb Marian Flor: Hello list members, here another

Booting from large microSD (SDHC) [success]

2008-11-08 Thread Marian Flor
Hello list members, here another FR success story: Booting and usage of a large 16GB SDHC works! My configuration and recipe: - QtExtend on flash - Debian on microSD (ext2+ext2) [1] - u-boot daily (8 Nov 2008) from [2] - Applied configure-uboot.sh from [3] - Kernel for Debian from [4] (but the

Re: Booting from large microSD (SDHC) [success]

2008-11-08 Thread Paul
Marian Flor wrote: Hello list members, here another FR success story: Booting and usage of a large 16GB SDHC works! Wow!! Good show!!! Paul -- Success generally depends upon knowing how long it takes to succeed. -Charles de Montesquieu http://www.nlpagan.net Running on Mandriva Linux