linaro-android-media-create can't burn Android on mx53loco

[Spring Zhang]

on 11.08 release, can't burn Android image on i.MX53loco, it will wait a long time and won't quit.

Log:
$ sudo linaro-android-media-create --dev iMX53 --mmc /dev/sdc --system system.tar.bz2 --boot boot.tar.bz2 --userdata userdata.tar.bz2
====================================================================
            linaro-android-media-create is EXPERIMENTAL

 The command line parameters as well as the distribution format will
 be changed and we will not keep backward compatibility for the
 current version here.
====================================================================

I see...
Device Mount point Size
/dev/sda none 238475MB
/dev/sda1 none 51200MB
/dev/sda2 none 80009MB
/dev/sda3 none 107262MB
/dev/sda5 / 55309MB
/dev/sda6 /home 41958MB
/dev/sda7 /var 6087MB
/dev/sda8 none 3906MB
/dev/sdc none 3780MB
/dev/sdc1 none 3MB
/dev/sdc2 none 128MB
/dev/sdc3 none 256MB
/dev/sdc4 none 3392MB
/dev/sdc5 none 255MB
/dev/sdc6 none 511MB
/dev/sdc7 none 2623MB
/dev/sr0 none 0MB
Are you 100% sure, on selecting [/dev/sdc] (y/n)? y
Checking that no-one is using this disk right now ...
OK
Warning: bad partition start (earliest 794625)
end of partition 4 has impossible value for cylinders: 1023 (should be in 0-1022)

[Fathi Boudra (fboudra)]

I'm not able to reproduce with linaro-image-tools 2011.08-0ubuntu1~linaro2, using the following commands:
$ wget --no-check-certificate http://releases.linaro.org/platform/linaro-n/android/11.08/leb-imx53/boot.tar.bz2 http://releases.linaro.org/platform/linaro-n/android/11.08/leb-imx53/system.tar.bz2 http://releases.linaro.org/platform/linaro-n/android/11.08/leb-imx53/userdata.tar.bz2
$ sudo linaro-android-media-create --mmc /dev/sdb --dev iMX53 --system system.tar.bz2 --boot boot.tar.bz2 --userdata userdata.tar.bz2

Could you retry with another SD card?

[Mattias Backman (mabac)]

I can't reproduce the error either.

> end of partition 4 has impossible value for cylinders: 1023 (should be in 0-1022)

This looks strange, then end of the extended partition seems to be
invalid. Could you try to use --image_file instead of --mmc and see if
the resulting image file would fit on the sd card you're using?

Also testing with another card as Fathi suggests would be good.
Perhaps format the one you're using and make sure that you can use the
full size of the card?

[Spring Zhang (qzhang)]

I doubt it's card problem, it's a new card

[Zach Pfeffer (pfefferz)]

All the same would you try a different card. Also would you send details about the card you're using?

[Spring Zhang (qzhang)]

It's not related with SD card but my host machine, it can't finish parted a USB device. After reboot, it also has the issue.

[Spring Zhang (qzhang)]

the burning is successful after changing host even if there is warning "end of partition 4 has impossible value for cylinders: 1023 (should be in 0-1022)"
Thanks for your help

[Fathi Boudra (fboudra)]

Set status to invalid as it isn't l-i-t issue.

[Irvin Sirotic (irvin-sirotic)]

I experienced same issue. After correcting cylinder/head/sector parameters according to the link bellow, i was able to burn image without problems

http://www.omappedia.org/wiki/Android_SD_Configuration#Step_by_Step_Instructions_to_format_SD_card