wetab install

[Maurice de la Ferte]

Hi, 

On October 8, 2012 at 12:31 PM "Sebastian Kügler" <sebas at kde.org> wrote:

> On Saturday, October 06, 2012 17:05:21 Nicola De Filippo wrote:
> > i suggest to add this line
> > "root at linux printf "\x9d\x2a\x44\x7b"|dd of=/dev/sdX bs=1 count=4 seek=440"
> > to  the instructions to  install mer image on wetab.
>
> For mere mortals, what does this do?
>
> (It's always a good idea to note that, since not everybody in a multi-
> disciplinary team has the same domain knowledge.)
 
this command modifies the ID inside the partition table.
This kind of hack is needed because a WeTab without patched
bios do only like to start from a internal recovery partition
after using the recovery grip. This hex number is the identifier
of the internal recovery partition and by this we are able to
install from a external flash drive.
 
Cheers,
 
Maurice