Re: Booting a CF or SD card from an internal card reader

2017-05-06 Thread Leandro Noferini
Brian writes: [...] >> My reader appears this way: >> >> >> ~ $ lsusb >> Bus 001 Device 003: ID 058f:9540 Alcor Micro Corp. AU9540 Smartcard Reader >> > > T

Re: Booting a CF or SD card from an internal card reader

2017-05-05 Thread David Wright
On Fri 05 May 2017 at 13:53:00 (-0400), Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> Of course it all depends on what you mean by "booting from". AFAICT in > >> Leandro's situation, he's loading Grub from some other disk (probably > >> the main HDD or SSD), so he's already "not booting from the SD card" in > >> thi

Re: Booting a CF or SD card from an internal card reader

2017-05-05 Thread Brian
On Fri 05 May 2017 at 13:53:00 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> Of course it all depends on what you mean by "booting from". AFAICT in > >> Leandro's situation, he's loading Grub from some other disk (probably > >> the main HDD or SSD), so he's already "not booting from the SD card" in > >> this

Re: Booting a CF or SD card from an internal card reader

2017-05-05 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> Of course it all depends on what you mean by "booting from". AFAICT in >> Leandro's situation, he's loading Grub from some other disk (probably >> the main HDD or SSD), so he's already "not booting from the SD card" in >> this sense. > By "booting from" I mean everything which is needed to brin

Re: Booting a CF or SD card from an internal card reader

2017-05-05 Thread Brian
On Fri 05 May 2017 at 08:44:48 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > This is the 4-in-1 card reader; the one you want you are trying to boot > > from. As indicted by /dev/mmcblk0p1 it is on the PCI bus. 'lspci' should > > display the chip used; one from Ricoh? > > > > GRUB doesn't see anything on this

Re: Booting a CF or SD card from an internal card reader

2017-05-05 Thread David Wright
On Fri 05 May 2017 at 07:58:06 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/05/2017 04:28 AM, Brian wrote: > >On Fri 05 May 2017 at 05:34:13 +0200, Leandro Noferini wrote: > > > >>Brian writes: > >> > >>>1. This HOWTO is a result of the discussion on debian-user beginning at > > > >It should be stressed

Re: Booting a CF or SD card from an internal card reader

2017-05-05 Thread Brian
On Fri 05 May 2017 at 07:58:06 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/05/2017 04:28 AM, Brian wrote: > > > >I think you have possibly not appreciated the distinction between a card > >reader on a USB bus and one on a PCI bus. The first should be visible to > >GRUB and nativedisk (but, as you have se

Re: Booting a CF or SD card from an internal card reader

2017-05-05 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/05/2017 04:28 AM, Brian wrote: On Fri 05 May 2017 at 05:34:13 +0200, Leandro Noferini wrote: Brian writes: 1. This HOWTO is a result of the discussion on debian-user beginning at It should be stressed that the HOWTO is applicable only to devices on the USB bus. Thanks a lot for thi

Re: Booting a CF or SD card from an internal card reader

2017-05-05 Thread Stefan Monnier
> This is the 4-in-1 card reader; the one you want you are trying to boot > from. As indicted by /dev/mmcblk0p1 it is on the PCI bus. 'lspci' should > display the chip used; one from Ricoh? > > GRUB doesn't see anything on this bus (it has no drivers for the device), > so booting from it is not pos

Re: Booting a CF or SD card from an internal card reader

2017-05-05 Thread Brian
On Fri 05 May 2017 at 05:34:13 +0200, Leandro Noferini wrote: > Brian writes: > > > 1. This HOWTO is a result of the discussion on debian-user beginning at It should be stressed that the HOWTO is applicable only to devices on the USB bus. > Thanks a lot for this document because it hits a prob

Re: Booting a CF or SD card from an internal card reader

2017-05-04 Thread Leandro Noferini
Brian writes: > 1. This HOWTO is a result of the discussion on debian-user beginning at Thanks a lot for this document because it hits a problem I found many months ago without solution for me. I would like to use my internal card reader (Lenovo X240) to boot in tails (https://tails.boum.org) M

Booting a CF or SD card from an internal card reader

2017-04-18 Thread Brian
1. This HOWTO is a result of the discussion on debian-user beginning at https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/04/msg00329.html 2. Some machines which have internal card readers do not expose the devices in them to the BIOS. When GRUB uses the BIOS it too will be unaware of what is in