On 20/01/12 20:19, Michael Lange wrote: > Hi, > > Thus spoketh Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> > unto us on Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:01:56 +0000: > >> On Thu 19 Jan 2012 at 20:52:23 +0100, Michael Lange wrote: >> >>> So I think what i would need is a way to start at least one of these >>> hotplug events, the one that installs the CF card, from within the >>> initrd, *before* it tries to mount / from a device which has not yet >>> been initialized. >> >> You didn't respond to my final two questions, Contrary to my usual >> practice I'll provide their probable outcomes. 'ls -l' would not have >> shown the CF card. 'search --label CFCARD' would have said 'no such >> device'. > > I wrote that the the BIOS doesn't know about the CF card, so I thought it > is obvious that grub won't know about it either ;)
That's incorrect - the BIOS doesn't have any bearing on whether GRUB can boot a device. <snipped> Cheers -- Iceweasel/Firefox extensions for finding answers to Debian questions:- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/Scott_Ferguson/debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f19383a.1090...@gmail.com
