On Saturday 13 September 2008, Harald Welte wrote:
> > > 2. use a grub-install or similar program that can discover the bios
> > > drive number to /dev/mmcblk* device name mapping
>
> grub itself (the actual bootloader) has no problem.
> grub2 supports /dev/mmcblk* out of the box
>
> However, the o
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 n
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 02:15:11PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> > The actual distribution installation program needs to
> > 1. recognize /dev/mmcblk* as block devices that can be used as
> >target device
>
> This is the main issue. As Debian Installer uses libparted for
> partitioning the real q
Hi Frans,
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 02:15:11PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Thursday 11 September 2008, Harald Welte wrote:
> > The distribution installation initrd needs to
> > 1. include and auto-load the sdhc.ko and sdhci_pci.ko kernel modules
>
> Including these modules is a trivial change. H
fjp:
> Including these modules is a trivial change. However, it does not make
> sense to do so until the installer supports installing to an SD card.
> Until such time, adding them manually for testing purposes is trivial.
If the modules were included on the hd-media image, it should allow bootin
Hello Harald,
On Thursday 11 September 2008, Harald Welte wrote:
> The distribution installation initrd needs to
> 1. include and auto-load the sdhc.ko and sdhci_pci.ko kernel modules
Including these modules is a trivial change. However, it does not make
sense to do so until the installer suppor
Package: debian-installer
Version: 20080522
http://wiki.gpl-devices.org/wiki/Installing_Linux_on_booting_SD_card
Recently, BIOS vendors have been starting to implement a 'boot from SD card'
feature, much like they have added 'boot from USB memory stick' some years ago.
The only SD-card host cont
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