[PLUG] Mounting the G1 Android under Linux, and a weird partition table.

[drew wymore]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Rogan Creswick <creswick at gmail.com> wrote:

> I bit the bullet yesterday and stood in line (with a whopping 4 other
> people ;) to get an Android G1, and now that the novelty has worn off
> (ok, it really hasn't -- not even close) I'm starting to dig into the
> more geeky aspects.
>
> The phone uses a MicroSD card for bulk storage, and it mounts up over
> usb just fine under Windows XP (just like a thumb drive), however,
> under Linux, I've been unable to identify a partition to mount.  This
> is what fdisk reports as the partition table:
>
> $ fdisk /dev/sda
>
> Command (m for help): p
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 1021 MB, 1021837312 bytes
> 32 heads, 61 sectors/track, 1022 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 1952 * 512 = 999424 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x6f20736b
>
> This doesn't look like a partition table
> Probably you selected the wrong device.
>
>
>
I imagine its using FAT32. Is the kernel module loaded to support that file
system?

Drew-