[OpenWrt-Devel] Signing, meta-data, etc. on images and losetup mounts...

Philip Prindeville philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com
Wed Apr 29 22:57:25 EDT 2020



> On Apr 29, 2020, at 8:27 PM, Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca <luizluca at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Thanks.  Where is the beginning of the whole disk image (and end) if I want to “dd” it onto an SSD or SD?
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> Meta is at the end. Gunzip will give you a warning and ignored it when expanded.
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> First byte of the expanded image is the disk sector 0. It is a normal disk image with partitions. I didn't test EFI, which might use GPT but the other one is simply a DOSMBR partitioned disk.
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> The default size is about 256MB (or is it 128?). Just dd it to something a little bit bigger and let it run.
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> Regards,
> 


Yes, my understanding is that UEFI mandates GPT.


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