Problem in the installation instructions for the Zedboard?

Problem in the installation instructions for the Zedboard?

Postby Reventlov » Tue Jun 16, 2015 8:08 am

Hello.
In the installation instructions for the Zedboard, available here: http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv7/xilinx/zedboard, it is said:
« Type n, then p for primary, 1 for the first partition on the drive, 8192 for the first sector, then +50M for the last sector.
[…] Type n, then p for primary, 2 for the second partition on the drive, then ENTER twice to accept the default first and last sectors. »

If you do this, since the first sector on the drive according to fdisk may be something like 2048, it will select the first free sector when it creates the second partition on the drive, first free sector that may be before the first sector of the first partition. It may result in a partition of 3M, for example.

You should first use p to print the last sector of the first partition, then select this sector (+1, I guess) as the first sector of the second partition. Otherwise, you'll start at sector 2048 and end up at the sector 8192, for example.

I think the documentation could be fixed.

Edit: also, should cp uses the -r option ? For the boot/dtbs/ directory, for example.
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