Re: Booting from an SD card?
> From: Mark Allums <mark@allums.com>
>
> On 5/30/2010 5:46 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> My wife has an early eeepc with a 4GB SSD running Xandros.
She
> would like to change the OS so that she can install other
software easily.
> I have a newer eeepc with a 160GB HD that
came with the OS that must
> not be named and now also has Eeebuntu 3.0.
>
> Now, I have a 4 GB SD card that I
want to install Lenny
> on, just like the installation to my hard drive. That way, my wife can try
> it out on her eeepc WITHOUT
MAKING ANY CHANGES TO HER HD. I have gone
> through the install, but can not boot from it. I am 99% certain that it is
> just a
case of getting grub properly installed on the SD card. From MY pc,
> how do I install grub on the SD card to that Lenny can boot directly
from the SD
> card (on my box, or my wife's) without affecting
the booting of my machine, or
> needing to change anything on my
wife's machine?
>
> Can anyone help me with
> this?
>
>
> Marc Shapiro
>
> Off the top of my head, you will
need a boot loader installed on the main drive
> that can see the SD card. My Eee PC can't boot off of the SD card. It may
> be that other models, possibly yours, can, but mine can't.
If you hold down the escape key while booting you get the option to boot from the hard drive, or the SD card reader.
>
If I were doing it, I might look for an 8 GB or even 16 GB SD card.
The plan is, if she likes it, to install onto her SSD in place of the original Xandros installation. Since it is only 4 GB I wanted a card of the same size to make sure that we could fit the OS, software and data into that amount of space.
> You might also
consider a bootable USB flash drive. Much easier to boot
> off of USB than SD.
For testing purposes, that may be true, but I would still need to get grub installed so that it can boot without affecting my wife's current installation and booting process. She doesn't want any changes to her current system until she has tested the new system for herself.
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Marc Shapiro
mshapiro_42@yahoo.com
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