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