[poky] [Yocto] RFC: README.hardware: Intel Atom device documentation

[Darren Hart]

On 12/15/2010 05:31 PM, Tom Zanussi wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 16:17 -0800, Darren Hart wrote:
>> I ran across some issues working with USB keys while booting a couple
>> different Intel Atom based devices. I drafted the following documenting
>> what I learned from the process. I'd like to add this (or something
>> similar) to README.hardware.
>>
>> Thoughts/Comments?
>>
>
> Hey, thanks for this - it solved the same problem I was having with the
> sdk image :-)

Excellent, glad to hear it. Did you happen to try writing a directdisk 
image to the usb stick to see if that would boot? That might be another 
option. I prefer the hddimg over the ddimg, as the hddimg can easily be 
mounted with -o loop and modified, but if ddimg works, it's a fair bit 
easier than having to deal with the USB-ZIP mode.

Thoughts on how we should present this?

> One small correction below...
>
>>

>>    2. Without such an option, the BIOS generally boots the device in
>>       USB-ZIP mode.
>>
>>       a. Configure the USB device for USB-ZIP mode:
>>
>>       # mkdiskimage -4 /dev/sdb 0 63 62
>>
>>       Where 63 and 62 are the cylinder and head count as reported by
>
> should be: head and sector rather than cylinder and
> head.

Woops, right you are. Thanks for the catch!

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Darren Hart
Yocto Linux Kernel