Re: Using ADLO with Linuxbios

[Steve Gehlbach]

Deepak Kotian wrote:
> I tried this a similar command on a Compact flash IDE after partioning.
> Say.
> > dd if=elfImage of=/dev/hdc1 bs=4096 seek=1
> > --------------------------^^

What Ron used was /dev/hdc, ie, the drive from the beginning, not 
partition 1.  The 4096 and seek=1 skips over the partition table and 
puts the image into the last part of the MBR/partition table area 
overlapping into partition 1.  It's equivalent to seeking 8 sectors from 
the beginning when viewing the disk as linear sector addressing.

I wouldn't do this sort of thing on any drive you care about, easy to 
make typos and wipe out the disk (or another disk if your fingers type 
/dev/hda when your brain says hdc).

-Steve