In the installation instructions for the Orange Pi PC is the following for burning uboot to sd card:

My question is should I use

or sdg is what the sd card appears in my card reader. I ask because I was trying a new install with the latest changes. (using -current) I first tried the second version of the command assuming it should go into the first (only) partition and got an error of not enough space. Then I tried without the partition number which appeared to work, but won't boot the system. Before I do perverted things to another sd card I need clarification on which command to use.

Thanks for bearing with my poor ossified mind.

It's /dev/sdg in your example, because the 'image' file contains its own partition table, so once you write it to the target device, you'll be able to do fdisk -l and see the new partition table.

I was reluctant to include a specific device name in case people copied it without reading, and wiped out their storage!
I'll update the instructions to use sdz as an example, as it's unlikely that unless you've got a huge storage array, you won't have so many devices attached!

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Thank you. I wasn't sure about leaving out the partition number.