Creating a bootable SDcard

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All the process was made with a SD CARD 8GB

The operation could be made with any other sd card.

Install Gparted

sudo apt-get install gparted

Execute gparted as root

sudo gparted
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Create a 32MB FAT32 partition with the label: boot

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Create a EXT3 partition with the rest of the SD CARD with the label: rootfs

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Apply the operation to get your SD Card correctly partitioned and formated

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Add the boot flags

The gparted allow you to add those flags , add a boot flag to FAT32 partition. 

-->Partition tag 
---->Manage Flags
------->Add the boot flag
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