Hi!

Im following the instructions here:

http://linux-sunxi.org/Bootable_SD_card#Bootloader

but I can`t find the cardroot command looks like it is not in the debian repositories...

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Miha

In the link you provided, cardroot is not a command; it's a variable:

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Thanks!

Yes it became obvious as soon as saw your reply. I somehow didnt see the assigment sign.

Now I dont understand the difference between the card layout and partitioning:

SD card layout:


start size usage

0 8KB Unused, available for partition table etc.
8 24KB Initial SPL loader
32 512KB u-boot
544 128KB environment
672 352KB reserved
1024 - Free for partitions


first the first part of the card is erased:

dd if=/dev/zero of=${card} bs=1M count=1

then the bootloader is added:

dd if=spl/sunxi-spl.bin of=${card} bs=1024 seek=8
dd if=u-boot.img of=${card} bs=1024 seek=40

Why seek=40 if it should start at 32 as stated in the SD card layout above?

And then finaly partitioning is made like this:

sfdisk -R ${card}
cat <<EOT | sfdisk --in-order -uM ${card}
1,16,c
,,L
EOT

Which I dont understand at all..

Does somebody have any ideas what is happening behind these commands?

Thanks,

Miha

You didn't need to erase it.

A simple dd if=image.name of=/dev/sdx should have been all you needed.