Hello, I just purchased my FreeRunner and I have run into a couple of issues dealing with the SD card. I researched and attempted a lot of troubleshooting and am not sure where to go from here. Here is what I have tried so far:
Initially I tried to install qtopia to the SD card to try out that interface. I followed the instructions for the install and moved over the rootfs. When I tried to decompress the tar, I received an "invalid tar magic" error. I tried a couple more times and continued to receive that error. I removed the SD card and accessed it from my linux host and was able to complete the qtopia installation with no errors. I placed the SD card back in the FreeRunner and was able to boot qtopia off the SD card with no issues. It seemed stable and I had no running issues. I then decided to try debian and downloaded it's installer. I ran the installer and received the same "invalid tar magic" error during the debian stage. I rebooted and attempted again several times with the same result. It did not always happen in the same place, but it was the same error. I upgraded uBoot to gta02v5 and the kernel and rootfs to the latest Om2008.8. I tried the debian installer again with the same results. I tried both running the installer again right after a failure and I tried rebooting and then running the installer again. Still the same results. A couple of times the unit locked up when I attempted to run the installer again directly after a failure. I read the information about slowing down the clock speed to allow for slower cards. This is the original SD card, but I gave it a try anyway. I created another boot menu entry with the added argument to max the speed at 10000000. I tried the debian installer again and had the same error. I checked over the list of supported SD cards and tried a 2GB scandisk thinking that maybe my SD card had an issue. Same results. Is there anything that I missed or did not consider? Anything else I can try? Could I have a bad SD controller? Thanks -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/SD-Card-Issues-On-GTA02-tp841858p841858.html Sent from the Openmoko Support mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ support mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support
