Here's the partition table information from the original 32-megabyte SanDisk CF card inside the factory-original GCT. I obtained this using a Knoppix CD on my laptop with a SanDisk SDDR-31 USB CF reader. The Knoppix system recognized the CF as /dev/sda with four partitions. The fdisk utility displayed this information:
1 head
62 sectors / track
1011 cylinders
Units = 62 * 512 = 31744 bytes
Partition 1
Start cyl 2
End cyl 101
Size 3100
Partition 2 (bootable)
Start cyl 102
End cyl 201
Size 3100
Partition 3
Start cyl 202
End cyl 218
Size 527
Partition 4
Start cyl 219
End cyl 1011
Size 24583
I formatted another 32 meg CF card to match this one, set the bootable partition, and dd'ed the partitions from one to the other. Unfortunately, my GCT didn't like it and never got past the Gateway logo screen. :( I did notice however that the messed-up geometry previously written to this CF card could be corrected with the Linux fdisk utility. When I used fdisk to delete all the partitions and create a new DOS partition table, it returned the CF card to the correct geometry as shown at the beginning of this message. This may be helpful to anyone having problems with CF cards after using them with Windoze XP.
While I'm discussing CF geometry and partition tables, does anyone have this information for the Midori image files available from this board? jsmmd / hardware1 : do you have any idea? Thanks in advance.
