Make Micro SD card bootable in windows

John Dyson

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Oct 12, 2020, 9:27:25 AM10/12/20

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Hi,

Is there a tool in windows that reliably marks the SD card as bootable to change the MLO? Or would it better to do it from virtual box ubuntu?

Thanks

Robert Nelson

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Oct 12, 2020, 9:32:10 AM10/12/20

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On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 8:27 AM John Dyson <dysona...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> Is there a tool in windows that reliably marks the SD card as bootable to change the MLO? Or would it better to do it from virtual box ubuntu?

Actually neither.. It's best to boot into a native Linux
LiveCD/Install, and then copy the MLO with dd to the microSD..

Both Windows and VirtualBox add an extra layer that likes to corrupt
the microSD at that low level..

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Dennis Lee Bieber

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Oct 12, 2020, 1:26:10 PM10/12/20

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On Sun, 11 Oct 2020 02:48:35 -0700 (PDT), in
gmane.comp.hardware.beagleboard.user John Dyson

<dysonator619-Re5J...@public.gmane.org> wrote:

>Is there a tool in windows that reliably marks the SD card as bootable to
>change the MLO? Or would it better to do it from virtual box ubuntu?

There is, to my knowledge, nothing in Windows that understands EXTn
file systems/partitions.

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Dennis L Bieber

John Dyson

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Oct 14, 2020, 6:45:01 AM10/14/20

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Hi,

I have managed to resolve this using virtualbox and GPartedin ubuntu.

thanks

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