USB Install image fails to install properly on Aigo MID

[Ken Hollis]

I downloaded the latest Menlow MID image and did a disk dump of the image file on to my flash disk. Upon booting into the image from the USB Flash, it proceeded to install the image on to the hard drive, however, several errors occurred during the installation process "fdisk" procedure:

Using default value 126
Value out of range.
Last cylinder value out of range
Using default value 234
got EOF thrice - exiting.

On the second run of the fdisk, I get:

First cylinder (1-234, default 1): Using default value 1
Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-234, default 234): Value out of range.
Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-234, default 234): Value out of range.
Command (m for help): 8: unknown command.

sda: sda3 sda4

Where's sda1 and sda2?

Formatting /dev/sda1 w/ ext3 ...
could not stat /dev/sda1 --- No such file or directory

Formatting /dev/sda2 w/ ext3 ...
could not stat /dev/sda2 --- No such file or directory

... copying stuff ...
Copying squashfs filesystem into place...
`/tmp/install/rootfs.ig' -> `/mnt/boot/rootfs.img'
cp: writing `'/mnt/boot/rootfs.img': No space left on device
Unmounting partitions...
error writing /etc/mtab.tmp: No space left on device
(repeated 3 times)

"Install Successfully"

... I wouldn't call that successful.

I reboot by taking out the USB card, and the MID never boots.

[Loïc Minier (lool)]

This is an issue of moblin-image-creator:
a) it wont fail if it can't create partitions; it continues happily despite the errors
b) it's way too fragile in the handling of its disk logic; if you don't have proper setup.cfg values, it wont guess your partition sizes right

Try fiddling with setup.cfg :-/