setupmbr: Bad/No Signature

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Tue Feb 26 09:08:02 EST 2013


On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 02:40:12AM -0600, Nathan wrote:
> I was following http://barebox.org/documentation/barebox-2011.05.0/x86_bootloader.html
> I am getting the error:
> “No MBR signature found
> barebox image seems not valid: Bad MBR signature”
> 
> At first I was trying it with OpenSuse and thought the problem could
> have been related to it being 64-bit, however I am also getting the
> error on a 32-bit build of Debian.
> 
> A hexdump of sdb does show “aa55” at the end of the 1st sector.

Could you post the commandline you used to call setupmbr?

Sascha


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