pcDuino installation process

[pej02]

I'm having problems with the pcDuino arch linux ARM installation process onto a microSD card (which is slotted into a USB card reader attached to my PC running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS).

I've used fdisk to successfully create a 16Mbyte FAT16 partition and an ext4 partition as the other partition. When I do:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'dd if=u-boot.bin of=/dev/sdd1 bs=1024 seek=32')
I've discovered (after mounting the first partition) that the above command completely corrupts the file allocation table on the first partition. Any other files I copy onto that partition do not appear.

I've repeated the steps on two other different sized Class 10 cards and observed exactly the same problem.

Any constructive suggestions please?

[pepedog]

I would think of=/dev/sdd instead of of=/dev/sdd1
You are not writing to a partition, but raw to card, a la mbr type of thing