Thread: Able to clone 2008Os to 2G but not 8G SDHC
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fanoush is offline fanoush
2008-01-17 , 20:39
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#9
Originally Posted by twonk View Post
I suspect that the boot menu process cant find the 2nd partition at such a high starting block... (I could very well be wrong, it's a guess).
That is quite unlikely. MMC is block device just like harddisk. Unless the mmc driver itself is buggy (unlikely too), there is no difference for kernel between SD card and your latest 500GB or 1TB harddisk. Linux kernel, partition table layout and ext2 filesystem can handle that just fine. So maybe some userspace utility on tablet (sfdisk,mkfs.ext2) is broken or compiled without support for bigger sizes (??) or I simply don't know.

Try to use sfdisk with -uM if it makes difference while partitioning or even try to partition and mkfs.ext2 on linux PC over USB. Also what happens when you boot from flash and then mount such partition later? Can you read it?
You can even run as root
Code:
chroot /mnt/initfs
and then you are inside initfs and you can mount it there. That should be same situation like when system boots. Post any error you see.

BTW since prices went down lately I have ordered 8GB class 6 SDHC card for my N800 so I will try this when I have it.
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Last edited by fanoush; 2008-01-17 at 20:47.