SDHC 16GB 15MB/s card

[Cédric Berger]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 17:26, arne anka <openmoko at ginguppin.de> wrote:
>> Anyway my partition table is now crashed thanks to suspend/resume issue.
>> I go digging in mailing list, I think I saw ways to recover...   else
>> I'll have to start from 0...
>
> any linux distribution should offer tools to recover lost partitions and
> recreate partitiontables.
> i think parted is one.
>
> after recovery backup your bootsector by doing
>
> dd if=/dev/mmcbl0 of=boot.backup bs=512 count=1
>
> in case you loose it again, do
>
> dd if=boot.backup of=/dev/mmcblk0
>
> that's on your host! i don't know, if that works from fr, though.
>

thank you, that will help me a lot !


On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 16:35, Vikas Saurabh <vikas.saurabh at gmail.com> wrote:
> I could recover the data by creating the same paritioning and then
> re-downloading the kernel in the first partition (one of teh post suggested
> that the bug actually eats up a sector from the first partition as well....I
> didn't check and downloading the kernel was pretty easy).
>
How did you recreate the same partitioning ? Informations from my
fdisk -l /dev/mmcblk0 before the corruption will be enough to recreate
it the same way ?
Anyway I guess I'll first try to find a tool to do the recovery...