[ltp] booting from sd card

[Hendrik-Jan Heins]

Well, to me a big advantage of booting from SD is that you can
actually quite easily already get cards from 8Gb. I would like for
instance to have one with Windows on there so I can easily flash in a
new BIOS when needed.
Also: an sd card doesn't stick out if the machine, limiting the risk
of damage/bumping it.

best regards,

Hendrik-Jan

2008/11/25 Richard Neill <rn214@hermes.cam.ac.uk>:
>>
>> It is not a USB device. It is listed with lspci:
>> 05:00.2 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host
>> Adapter (rev 21)
>> driven by the sdhci module
>>
>> (X61s 7666-36G)
>>
>> I tried chainloading a while ago, putting the relevant modules in the
>> initrd, but did not have sucess. I installed grub into this device from
>>  another computer, because of the ubuntu grub installer could not handle
>> this device (wasn`t /dev/sd[a..z]).
>>
>> I think to implement boot possibility is more difficult for the bios
>> developers.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>
>
> I suspect that this isn't going to work then! At any rate, I'm afraid it's
> beyond my ability to advise, though perhaps one of our gurus may have a
> suggestion.
>
> Just stepping back a moment, what's the advantage of booting from SD?
> Some possible other options:
>  Boot from SD, but in a USB reader
>  Boot from USB key
>  Boot over the network. (etherboot/GPXE)
>  Put a small CF card in an adapter; replace the HDD with it.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Richard
>
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