Re: Add mmcblk0p1 to bootonly drive search path

[Klaus Knopper <debian-knoppix@knopper.net>]

Hello Eric,

You are right, the block special device /dev/mmcblk[0-9]p* was missing
in the initrd search list. The driver for MMC-Cards should already be in
the static kernel, though. I added searching for these devices in the
initial ramdisk for Knoppix 8.0 (small modification in the file "init"
inside minirt.gz).

For the current 7.7 releases, it should be possible to boot with

knoppix64 fromhd=/dev/mmcblk0p1
or
knoppix fromhd=/dev/mmcblk0p1

, as this explicitly adds the MMC drive to the search list.

Regards
-Klaus

On 03.02.17, Eric Kudzin wrote:
> If you have your KNOPPIX directory on an SD card, some machines show this as mmcblk0p1 (drive 0 partition 1). It would be nice to have the bootonly image also search for KNOPPIX here too. 
> 
> Some machines don't have the capability to boot off the card slot in the BIOS, so this would be a nice addition.
> 
> -Eric