On Sat 13 May 2017 at 14:09:09 +0200, deloptes wrote: > Brian wrote: > > > it will work for Debian. The answer is "probably" but it is questionable > > whether the advice to alter the initrd on the SD card need be followed. > > Perhaps it was necessary for the Ubuntu kernel at the time the article > > was written. The hardware involved would have to be known to more > > definitive. > > It will work definitely the same way as it is described in this Ubuntu > artice.
Now that we know the OP's machine has a Ricoh card reader I agree "probably" could be raised to "definitely". But the palaver of altering an initrd is still unnecessary. > As the article states, if your laptop can boot from SD no work is needed. > If it works or not, you'll find right after you reboot ;-) His machine cannot boot from an SD card. > > Debian would need to be installed to the SD card and the *same" Debian > > installed to the USB stick. lsinitramfs will help confirm whether needed > > modules are in an initrd. > > Not the same debian - you can install on the SD card and move or copy just > the boot directory to the usb, so that grub and pre init can do the work. I got carried away. :) -- Brian.
