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Aydan · 08-13-2014, 09:20 AM

Code:

dd if=boot_sector_kobo.img of=/dev/sdd seek=2 bs=512 count=19453

this should be

Code:

dd if=boot_sector_kobo.img of=/dev/sdd seek=2 skip=2 bs=512 count=19453

What you did is to start writing your whole image from sector 2, so everything is off by 2 sectors.
What i would suggest you do is dd mareks image onto your SD-card, extract the serial, hwinfo and waveform data from the original sd-card with

Code:

dd if=/dev/sdd of=serial bs=512 skip=1 count 1
dd if=/dev/sdd of=hwinfo bs=512 skip=1024 count 1
dd if=/dev/sdd of=waveform bs=512 skip=14335 count 2

and copy those files onto the new sdcard with

Code:

dd if=serial of=/dev/sdd bs=512 seek=1
dd if=hwinfo of=/dev/sdd bs=512 seek=1024
dd if=waveform of=/dev/sdd bs=512 seek=14335

Regards
Aydan

PS: seek means go to position in output, skip means goto position in input

08-13-2014, 09:20 AM	#105
Aydan Connoisseur Posts: 87 Karma: 2975 Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Germany Device: Kobo Touch	Code: dd if=boot_sector_kobo.img of=/dev/sdd seek=2 bs=512 count=19453 this should be Code: dd if=boot_sector_kobo.img of=/dev/sdd seek=2 skip=2 bs=512 count=19453 What you did is to start writing your whole image from sector 2, so everything is off by 2 sectors. What i would suggest you do is dd mareks image onto your SD-card, extract the serial, hwinfo and waveform data from the original sd-card with Code: dd if=/dev/sdd of=serial bs=512 skip=1 count 1 dd if=/dev/sdd of=hwinfo bs=512 skip=1024 count 1 dd if=/dev/sdd of=waveform bs=512 skip=14335 count 2 and copy those files onto the new sdcard with Code: dd if=serial of=/dev/sdd bs=512 seek=1 dd if=hwinfo of=/dev/sdd bs=512 seek=1024 dd if=waveform of=/dev/sdd bs=512 seek=14335 Regards Aydan PS: seek means go to position in output, skip means goto position in input Last edited by Aydan; 08-13-2014 at 09:52 AM.