On Thursday 11 September 2008, Harald Welte wrote: > The actual distribution installation program needs to > > 1. recognize /dev/mmcblk* as block devices that can be used as > target device > 2. use a grub-install or similar program that can discover the bios > drive number to /dev/mmcblk* device name mapping
There is one major point missing here. The tool used by the distribution to generate the initrd for the installed system (for Debian initramfs-tools) will need to make sure the mmc driver modules are included in the initrd if the install is to an mmc device. I have checked this, and for Debian in turns out they are included when the "MODULES=most" setting is used, so no problem for default installations. I have bought a 2GB Sandisk Micro-SD card (8 EUR here) and have just successfully completed an install, including bootloader installation after applying a few relatively minor patches. There are no patches outside D-I required, so we could consider implementing this before Lenny. I will send a separate mail with the patches. Cheers, FJP
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