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Primax wrote: Wed Aug 03, 2022 10:01 am Hi Christian.

No, successfully written, but the stick is empty and cannot be acessed/read.
Could it be that my stick is too small? How much space is required for Fienix 5.1?

Have you created a small FAT16 boot partition and a partition for the Fienix img? The size of the img is approx. 6GB.

caseycullen wrote: Fri Apr 08, 2022 4:41 pm Yes, setup a boot partition and a main partition. Boot files (uImage and device tree) go in the boot partition. dd the image to the main partition and check the partition with gparted after the image has copied over.
I'm working on a tool that will handle most of this but it isn't finished yet.
-Casey

Oh, no!
Sorry, I missed that. I did not create a small FAT16 boot partition and a partition for the Fienix img.

Frankly spoken: I would not kow how to do...So, I need a simple description for that.

Or is this tool, which casey mentioned, finished?

Primax wrote: Wed Aug 03, 2022 6:44 pm Frankly spoken: I would not kow how to do...So, I need a simple description for that.

Or is this tool, which casey mentioned, finished?

You can create partitions with the Disk Management on Windows.

To open Disk Management, right-click the Start button and select Disk Management.

OK, I have my flash drive partitioned properly with a small FAT16 boot partition. My question is where are the boot files (uImage, etc.) to put in this partition? I have quite a bit of experience with Linux, but not much with Uboot computers. Any help is appreciated.

akmar1 wrote: Tue Aug 09, 2022 7:00 pm OK, I have my flash drive partitioned properly with a small FAT16 boot partition. My question is where are the boot files (uImage, etc.) to put in this partition? I have quite a bit of experience with Linux, but not much with Uboot computers. Any help is appreciated.

You can find them in the kernel packages.

Link: Thread “New kernels“

xeno74 wrote: Tue Aug 09, 2022 9:20 pm

akmar1 wrote: Tue Aug 09, 2022 7:00 pm OK, I have my flash drive partitioned properly with a small FAT16 boot partition. My question is where are the boot files (uImage, etc.) to put in this partition? I have quite a bit of experience with Linux, but not much with Uboot computers. Any help is appreciated.

You can find them in the kernel packages.

Link: Thread “New kernels“

AHA! Got it up and running. Thanks for the info.

Honestly, I do not know what I am doing wrong...
Anyone using USB Image Tool under Windows?

I have a 32GB USB stick. I have created two partitions: one formatted with FAT16 has 1 GB, the other formatted with FAT32 has 31 GB.
In this case, I use not the device but the volume mode of the tool.
But: if I try to write back the image, after about 70% I get the message that there is not enough space on it.
How can this be?

Any hints?
Thanks, Daniel

Hi Daniel,

Please try “dd“ for Windows.

Download and instructions: DD utility for Windows backup — serverspace.io

Examples:
Unfortunately I don’t have any experiences with dd under Windows.

Have a nice day.

Cheers,
Christian

Little update:
After uninstalling two partitioning software tools, the USB Image Tool runs fine up to 100%.
But: both partitions now are empty....

@Christian
Thank you! Will have a look at it!

What about the uInitrd file? Is it not required in the boot partition just like for Fienix 3.3?

And please: what are the commands for booting? I could not find anything here.
Thanks!