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Source files for SiFive's Freedom platforms
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SD Card is showing strange behavior #149

Open Iripi97 opened 4 years ago

Iripi97 commented 4 years ago

Hi I am trying to boot Linux with the Freedom Unleashed 500 work flow. I ran into some issues with formatting my SD card. I follow the steps found in the instruction PDF but when I try to write the table to the disk and exit it says: "Warning! An error was reported when writing the partition table! This error MIGHT be harmless, or the disk might be damaged! Checking it is advisable." I cannot see it when typing sudo fdisk -l either, however I can see in /dev the SD card (it is /dev/sdb). How would I check to see if the SD card is damaged, or how can I fix it such that it can still boot Linux?

erikdanie commented 4 years ago

I am not familiar with fdisk, but you may want to try asking on the sifive forums to see if anyone else has more experience or has run into this before

Iripi97 commented 4 years ago

If anyone else has trouble with their SD card, they should try the steps listed here: https://forums.sifive.com/t/sd-card-is-showing-strange-behavior/3333 On my end it ended up being that the SD card reader was broken, hope this helps!