On Sat 15 Apr 2017 at 16:30:29 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Sat 15 Apr 2017 at 19:57:32 (+0100), Brian wrote: > > On Sat 15 Apr 2017 at 13:08:30 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > On 04/15/2017 12:24 PM, Brian wrote: > > > > > > > >Did you overlook this question? You have said your machine does not > > > >offer booting from an SD card. Your answer will be interesting. > > > > > > Thought I'd answered it elsewhere. > > > > Nope. There has been no mention of booting *directly* *from* the SD card > > until this subthread. > > > > > It's on the menu that exists due to the grub on MBR of /dev/sda . > > > > So - the card is in its slot on your machine. You do 'update-grub'. > > There is now an entry in GRUB's menu. That is fine. This is what you are > > booting from? Your grub.cfg looks similar to what you posted before? > > > > If GRUB has been installed to the MBR of the SD card it has absolutely > > no bearing on the existence of the entry in GRUB's menu. It may as well > > not be there when GRUB on the MBR of /dev/sda constructs its grub.cfg. > > > > > There is an fschk error of some sort that flies by too fast. > > > Otherwise, runs from SD card. > > > > I like "simple"; I'm lost. > > One can avoid all this messing about with Grub by just copying a > netinst ISO onto the SD card instead of a USB stick. > > But then you need, as I've pointed out just now, to insert the > SD card into the slot _before_ booting, _and_ entering the CMOS > Setup Menu to make sure the device has highest booting priority. > (This is irrespective of how you wrote the SD card.)
Nobody in this thread, apart from the OP, has a Lenovo and an SD card. He is in the best position to test and report on this suggestion. Less than twenty minutes work. -- Brian.
