First RSPRO deployed !

Monthadar Al Jaberi monthadar at gmail.com
Wed Nov 17 08:09:40 UTC 2010


>
> Is it possible to read/write flash from FreeBSD itself? When I add
> geom_redboot into kernel, I see /dev/redboot directory with flash parts, but I
> have no idea how to read them - dd if=/dev/redboot/<something> gives just an
> error and no data are read... Is some special tool necessary for that? I would
> like to make a backup copy of flash, just in case...
>

Had same issue check:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2010-November/010023.html

Without Adrian's patch, try dd ... bs=64k
with his (have not tried it yet) try dd ... bs=4k.

Has to do with blocksize check the thread! ;)


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//Monthadar Al Jaberi


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