On 3 May 2011 09:32, Tony MANSSON tony.xpt.mansson@stericsson.com wrote:
The ST-Ericsson Snowball has an eMMC that need a first partition of unknown type to make room for some files that the SoC needs in order to boot. We boot up to u-boot here, and then proceeds either to the internal eMMC or to the SD card, in both cases with the standard boot and root partitions as created by Linaro-Media-Create.
When creating images, this first partition is needed for the option --image_file, but should not be created for the option --mmc.
This sounds like you would end up with different results from: * using "--mmc" to write directly to a card * using "--image_file" and then copying the image to card with dd
That would be very confusing and a bad idea I think, but perhaps I'm misunderstanding?
-- PMM