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bunanson 2009-06-20 15:14

Using PC to delete the wrong partition will fix the problem if stepped into this bug
 
Strongly recommend to get it fix before it is a problem.

Just got a brand new N810, forget about this bug, did a sfdisk with diffculty the 1st time, and the intSD cannot be touched any more. Everytime I tried to sfdisk it again, it crashed, http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=29135, thread #18, got a RMA, almost returned back to the vendor.

No sweat :)

All you have to do is to remove the wrong partition. fsck, e2fsck, mke2fs, nothing work, tried for long time. Hook it up to a PC, Start>Settings>Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer management>Disk Management>Delete partition

Yah, Microsoft Windoz come to rescue my Linux tablet (tried to start a flame, come on....)!

I deleted the ext2 partition, and made the whole partition a FAT32 1.87G partition all under PC and the tablet does not FUZZY any more!

You have been warmed, better fix the phantom memory segment, you never know when will you step into the trap!

Sure, you can SSH/Linux flasher/whatnots, the key is to delete the incomplete partition, apparantly windoz is the simplest for me.

bun

Serge 2009-06-20 17:58

Re: Using PC to delete the wrong partition will fix the problem if stepped into this
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by bunanson (Post 298165)
Just got a brand new N810, forget about this bug, did a sfdisk with diffculty the 1st time, and the intSD cannot be touched any more. Everytime I tried to sfdisk it again, it crashed,

Just don't use sfdisk, it is buggy and can fail like this. Unless somebody gets really annoyed and fixes it, fdisk is a much better alternative :)

You could also just clear the flash card completely (along with that bit of information which was triggering a bug in sfdisk) before trying it again:
Code:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mmcblk0
sfdisk /dev/mmcblk0



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