Thread: N900 MeeGo CE Summer Edition Released
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wmarone is offline wmarone
2011-07-03 , 23:06
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#153
Originally Posted by mrsellout View Post
The regular install on sd card uses the emmc swap from maemo, but when you write this to the emmc, it overwrites the whole drive including the swap. Ergo no swap.
I was curious about this statement, as I didn't believe it was true. So I grabbed the latest image off the repo, and looked at the partition table. This is what I found:

Code:
Model:  (file)
Disk mg-handset-armv7nhl-n900-ce-stable-1.2.0.90.6.20110630.4.DE.2011-07-01.1-mmcblk0p.raw: 3817MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system     Flags
 1      512B    3775MB  3775MB  primary  ext4
 2      3775MB  3783MB  8389kB  primary  linux-swap(v1)
 3      3783MB  3817MB  33.6MB  primary  fat16           lba
So yes, when you load the image on the eMMC it does overwrite the entire drive. But you're overwriting everything, including the partition table, with a new partition table contained in the image. This includes a swap volume in partition two.

So, no bug.